May 3, 2020, 6:00 pm EDT
Frank Hersey
Tanzania’s much-watched and controversial biometric SIM registration requirement has now registered 37.3 million SIM cards against national ID numbers – roughly five million more than at the January 20 deadline – as the ID authority issues numbers to a further 2.5 million people between July 2019 and March 2020, reports IPP Media.
As of March 2020, 21.8 million national identification numbers had been issued by the National Identification Authority (NIDA), which has announced it will have issued 6.1 million ID numbers this financial year bringing the total to 27.8 million by June 2021, passing its target of 25.2 million.
The registrations have been good for NIDA’s coffers. Revenue collections have risen 177 percent as of March. So far, only 6.1 million people have been issued with ID cards, the remaining 17.9 million having just a number.
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