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President Peter Mutharika has assured Malawians that he will do everything possible in collaboration with his Zambian counterpart to address...
The punishment does not fit the crime. A national ID like that can be worth up to millions of kwachas. How does a $150 fine deter people who can easily fetch $1000 from selling the ID?
It could have been great if the article quoted the authorities comment on this, how it came to happen and what they are doing to stop it happening again.
How could it be some one having two ID with same information ? It shows that this IDs are not computerised anyone may manipulate it
Malawians should be very worried about voter registration tally. Bogus citizens are going to vote and so will duplicates. I am already informed that a number of burundians and Nigerians have multiple Malawi IDs. Don’t ask me how they got them. I wouldn’t be surprised if we are told by Statistics Office that Malawi has a population of 20 million.
Why don’t you use fingerprints when processing IDs by doing so you won’t have any problem.By using a fingerprint you will easily find out who has been issued an ID already.
They already use finger prints. This guys has two copies of the same ID from what the report is saying
One thing about Malawian reporters is ignorance of their profession. Did you ask National Registration Bureau on how possible that one can register more than once and not being detected
komadi eti..
What is at stake is not why this happened but how it happened. The system should be foolproof by rejecting multiple registration by one person.
Should we conclude that this system is fake?
Dont trust these IDs, the system was not able to detect duplicates even at registration centre, let alone at the head office. This is an opportunity to know that we have a porous system which doesn’t have a unique key in the database. How on earth one can register twice having taken his 10 fingerprints. That is just a tip on Iceberg. How would you trust these IDs for voting. We will be voting twice or more. The system that was used to capture data for registration was a clap. you will be surprised that your ID is having someone’s… Read more »
Very high probability of this happening indeed.
How on earth is the system able to accept two registrations by one person? What’s the use of the finger prints we provided? Isn’t that enough biometric information to detect people who want to register twice? So in other words, the finger prints are not working in your Database? Scary! So scary!
I think maybe because data was being capture offline
A good system will detect duplicates regardless of the environment. If data was captured online, when uploading into the main database, duplicates were supposed to be detected during this time. What it means here fingerprints were not used as unique. And its really interesting that we may have IDs that do not contain our fingerprints. One major important event that has been left out is the verification of these IDs by the holders. This is typical of government systems where duplicates are the order of the day, from HRMIS,PENSIONS,ROAD TRAFFIC, IFMIS ETC. The main problem with GOVT systems is that… Read more »