Why Somalia’s National Identity Crucial?

[Avalanche]

https://somaliainvestor.so/why-somalias-national-identity-crucial/

ID Card’s Significance in Somalis


Establishment of a legal national identity is very crucial in this century. The national identity enables and creates huge opportunities for the Somali people. The following points are benefits of having a national identity card.

First Security Enhancement: Somalia for the last decades has been facing security challenges, but the federal government of Somalia has not come up with a proper solution for the country’s insecurity. One of the main reasons why the insecurity of Somalia is not improving is a lack of national identity, which facilitates many foreigners coming to Somalia and participating in the insecurity of the country.

Therefore, the proof of a national identity card would assist the Somali government in keeping track of and preventing all the insecurity incidents, including those involving illegal immigrants who come to the country to be part of the insecurity violence happening in Somali territory or citizens who might plan to carry out actions against the country’s security and stability.

Second Financial Inclusion: The national identity card would facilitate financial inclusion for marginalised groups, including women and youth. Because the national identity will assist these groups to apply for and receive financial support from the government and donors. They will also be able to exercise key individual rights such as labour mobility, formal employment, voting, and property rights as a result of their national identity.

Third Robustness of government service delivery: The national identity will facilitate strengthening the efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency of good governance and service delivery to its community. These services include social safety nets, healthcare, education, and other social services like property rights.

Forth Enhancement for productivity of the private sector: for the last decades the Enhancement for productivity of the private sector: for the last decades, the private sector in Somalia has been growing, but most enterprises have suffered from uncertainty about their clients because of the “know your customer issue”. As a result, national identity cards will assist them in utilising and resolving the issue of identification and authentication for their clients. This will not merely be utilised by the enterprises, but also individuals will get access to take advantage of investment opportunities provided by the different banks since they have national identity cards.

In overall conclusion the identification card is very important and needed for now in Somalia. Because the identity of the Somali people is already lost and it is very hard to track and identify who is Somali Citizen and who is not because of the lack of identity. Therefore, the identity card will assist security force to trace and find out easily when they want to identify who was involved and participated the security incident happen in the country. The identity card will not only help the security enhancement in the country but it will also bring to economic opportunity for the marginalised groups including women and youth.

We really need to sort this thing out

 

[bidenkulaha]

A lot of politicians and government officials will not be too thrilled. It’ll bring greater transparency to corruption

 

[Somali Saayid]

These ID cards can also be facilitated to monitor terrorism, for example a system that records the ID cards and which road they took and what time their card was logged in.

Scenario;

Abdi works for AS and he and two other terrorists get in a car for a planned hotel attack or bomb attack. Before they can reach their destination they go through a checkpoint. The security services take all their cards and swipe them into a mobile device system that records where they were and what time.

Abdi and his crew successfully complete their mission. The police check the system to see who attack entered the area at the time. Using the card system and time the police are able to narrow it down to around a dozen people. Those dozen people are interrogated and eventually the police will narrow it down to Abdi and his AS co-terrorsits. They will be interrogated furthermore for info about AS and eventually executed.

Inshallah this system will do a lot of good.

Another point to HSM's admin.

 

[Mr. Wabrii]

This system will also keep track of Alshabaab people released in the past, also will track people with a criminal record who work in Government Jobs exc

Alot of people do not want this because now they can be Tracked,

Corrupt Officials can use it too track you and set you up, if someone works for A.S and they get in the system, they will know everything about everyone.

They can set up anyone at any time, which is why this needs to be carefully reviewed.

In 2014 the Head of id department in NISA was caught working with Alshabaab, He gave Alshabaab Ids and showed them what the undercovers looked like, Nisa lost more than 25 agents in a 2 year period. this guy got so closed to alot of people, he was even close friends with Hamdi who runs NISA at the airport.

In order to prevent that same thing from Happening, they need to carefully review this.

 

[DR OSMAN]

National identity is absolutely paramount for security and economic development not just private investors but govt investment to see where investment has gone and it's returns, it also can lead to statistics n data being created, a country that isn't storing these things has no basis to review govt policy, security policy, economic, etc.

This can also feed our legal system important data of criminals so they are reviewed before getting government jobs or even private jobs. Investors also want 'data' on historical performance of each sector, it's declines, growths, it wants govt policy-taxes-regulation. It wants to know the govt is creating the conditions for consumers to develop.

How can u live in a world known as the 'data' age and not make this a mandatory policy to be achieved quickly.

 

[DR OSMAN]

I love Somalis who are forward thinking n 'criticize n provide solutions' not just 'criticise' and allow for a vacuum or void to emerge, nice topic. Afkaga xiro ba fican if u don't have a better solution then what exists. Bad solutions beats hands-down any 'no solution'.

 

[Lovegrain]