As from Tuesday 1st of
September 2015, the use of the National Identification Number (NIN) is set to
become operational in Nigeria. As from
that date, according to an advertorial (The Guardian, April 27, pg 50): “any
government agency/institution, bank, insurance company and all other
Institutions offering services and or are involved in transactions requiring
the identity of an individual… and who so transacts without demanding or using
the NIN …. has committed an offence” For
emphasis, the advertorial repeated “The NIN shall be used by every party
involved in transactions requiring the authentication and verification of
identity to confirm identity.”
Transactions involved
include application for, and issuance of international passport, opening of
bank accounts, purchase, transfer or registration of land, even registration of
voters, payment of taxes, etc. All
encompassing!
Individuals who flout
the provision of the Act on national Identity management would be liable to a
fine of not less than fifty thousand naira and/or imprisonment of not less than
6 months. Corporate bodies’ fine will
not be less than a million naira each for the organization, and the officer
directly responsible for the flouting.
But the new emphasis on
personalized life-long unique identification number is also going on
elsewhere. For instance, quietly but
steadily, the issuance of the BVN is going on at the banks, and some sort of
deadline on its mandatory use seemed imminent.
The summary of all of
these? No hiding place for criminals!
The only snag is that in our post-modern
world, anybody could become a criminal overnight, depending on who is setting
the definition. Already in many western
nations, criticizing homosexuality is already a criminal act
. But apparently there is much more in the
offing. For instance, one of the top
campaign points of the Labour Party in the coming UK elections, is the promise
to clamp down more forcefully on “non-violent extremism.” In other words, extremism
is extremism, whether it involves beheading children and burning people alive
in iron cages or it manifests simply as a Court Registrar refusing to join
same-sex couples in marriage based on religious conviction! Such interpretations are already in wide
effect in the United States. “Extremism”
has been defined even for non-faith issues.
For instance, some are already calling
for the heads of those who hesitate to vaccinate their children due to well-justified
health concerns. In the US, such babies could be taken
away from the biological parent, while in other parts of the world, guns
have been known to be produced to compel people get their government-imposed
vaccine. Famous examples include Pakistan
and Malawi.
Of course, as seen in
the days of Daniel, refusing to worship in some specified manner (Dan. 3) or
insistence on praying in your preferred manner (Daniel 6) could both be
treasonable crimes!
So we say to Nigerians,
go for your unique identification number; but remember that the ground is
rapidly being prepared for the antichrist who would certainly require such a
system for the implementation of his certain-to-come policy described 2,000
years ahead in Rev 13:17 “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that
had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name”
You could however be in
a much better place by the time the antichrist is full-blown (2 Thess.
2:3-7). The time to secure your reservation
on the Rapture flight is NOW!
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