BRISIN Key To Good Governance And Economy..
Oru Leonard
Federal government have been urged to take proactive steps aimed at effective implementation of the Basic Registry information system in Nigeria (BRISIN)
BRISIN was approved by Federal government in 2007 towards promotion of good governance, job creation, credible data management, as well as to fight endemic corruption and other socio economic vices in the country but have suffered setbacks towards it implementation even in FCT at the pilot phase.
The Head of BRISIN in Nigeria, Dr Anthony Uwa disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja, adding that BRISIN is solid foundation as well as fundamental for economic development of any nation, “Nigeria is in shamble today because of few ignorant and selfish persons in government. Nigerians in the Diaspora and investors would jump with joy that finally this country would be valued and respected for building the system for data governance and every Nigerian would have sense of belonging. Investors will beg to come to Nigeria with their investment, Italy, EU, America and other parts of the world would support Nigeria in building BRISIN”
According to him, BRISIN did not and has never stopped, its ongoing, called on the coordinating Agency,the ministry of finance ,budget and national planning to live to its responsibilities and synergize with the Technical / Implementation Committee to meet with solution providers in getting the desired result.
“There is need to re-strategize for implementation, in the interim a tripartite urgent meeting between Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and solution providers be held to agree on pending issues and obligations.
System like BRISIN cannot be toiled with in a country like Nigeria if we must think of unify, equity and justice ”
Dr Uwa explained that the project was to be implemented in phases starting with preparatory which leads to pilot in FCT. We finished the preparatory stage in 2008 started the awareness campaign with FCT providing a temporary operating office without logistics, funds were not released, so after exhausting the external sourced funds we could not do much but continue on sensitization which led to Presidency .request that funds should be released and more provision for the extension of pilot to geo political Zones, FCT actually continued budgeting but funds were not released. In 2013 National Assembly Committee on FCT wrote to both MBNP and FCT to implement the project since they have been approving the budget as requested by them on the project.
In 2015 Presidency approved the inauguration of National Technical / Implementation Committee to liaise with the solution providers for the interest of every sectors. of the economy. After the inauguration several meetings were held planning for the official flag off of the pilot in FCT a sensitization tour of the MDAs took place and many investors both local and international showed interest all waiting for the Flag Off but were disappointed. Italy and EU as well as other countries showed interest and are still waiting, not forgetting that it was the G7 that advised Nigeria that to be great, it must have database to govern their development
Going further Dr Uwa expressed bitterness that in 2019 an attempt was made to start the implementation with the social department of FCT to create the database of all the people living with Disability, a recruitment exercise was conducted online to avoid unqualified candidates getting the jobs but the whole process was halted til date without any clear explanation by the coordinating agency.
BRISIN is an integrated system for the collection, storage and distribution of information to support the management of the economy.
It aims at bringing developmental and economic growth in the country through the use of data collection of people and other relevant information and the data received will be used to plan for the management of the nation’s resources.
