Africa-Press – Angola. More than 182,000 fraud attempts to obtain the Identity Card have been frustrated by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, from 2019 to date, the minister revealed this Friday.
Francisco Queiroz, who was speaking at the end of the balance sheet meeting of the Program for the Massification of Civil Registration and Attribution of the Identity Card (BI), clarified that the fraud attempts were not successful because the current centralized issuance system, so perfected, rejected -at.
“If it were with the previous system that allowed issuing the card, locally, in the provinces, municipalities and communes, as in the past, the more than 182 thousand attempts would be a reality and we would now have more than 182 thousand false tickets circulating in the country and abroad. “, he said.
Francisco Queiroz, who provided the clarification after being confronted with the possibility of citizens collecting the ID card on the same day it is treated, assured that the centralized issuing system of that document does not allow forgery, considering that it is more reliable from the point of view of security.
He admitted that this system takes a while. In Luanda province, he said, citizens have two days to get up and eight on the other. “It’s better to wait this time because there will be no fakes and we won’t even give Identity Cards to foreigners, for example, or to those who want to have the ID at any cost with false information and age”, he considered.
More than 12 million receive the BI
Since the start of the Identity Card registration and awarding campaign, in November 2019, 12,550,186 national citizens have been covered, revealed the Minister of Justice and Human Rights.
According to Francisco Queiroz, of the total, 10,296,902 are senior citizens qualified to vote in August this year.
The work to identify the population, he said, had “heavy funding” from the General Court of Justice, valued at 2.3 billion kwanzas, equivalent to US$5.1 million.
The minister also revealed the issuance of 15,919 new IDs in the diaspora. He underlined that this number does not mean that Angolans abroad are eligible to vote. “There is much more, because there are people in the diaspora with valid tickets and others who have obtained it for the first time,” he clarified.
With those numbers, Francisco Queiroz said that there are many citizens abroad who have the legal possibility of registering at the consulates.
“The difficulty we have registered is in knowing who died, because the death registration, which must be done under the terms of the law, requires the Identity Card, the number, the date of birth and also the indication of the cause of death. data are not always identified or delivered so that it is possible to know who died, how and where he is buried”, he stressed.
Another difficulty, he said, is the fact that many citizens in the country die and are buried in cemeteries and other unknown places.
According to the minister, at yesterday’s meeting, the provincial justice delegations were instructed to work with local traditional authorities in collecting and sending data to obtain information on the dead in each locality.
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