Yamoussoukro, March 22, 2022 (AIP) – The national civil status office of Côte d’Ivoire (ONECI) deployed in Yamoussoukro on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 a special device that strengthens the possibilities of latecomers to the national operation of identification of people to afford a national identity card (CNI).

The mobile enrollment system which thus extends within the country includes in particular the mobile station with its boxes which receive users according to their current concerns, namely the state of evolution of their CNI, complaints, corrections, renewals and enrolment.

This operation spread across the entire national territory aims to give Ivorian nationals a better chance of obtaining this document, the validity of which ends on March 31, 2022.

Out of approximately 6.5 million people expected, the number of petitioners to date is around 4.5 million and ONECI hopes to go well beyond these figures because “it is a question of assigning a national number to identification (NNI) to any citizen who lives on the soil of Côte d’Ivoire”, explained its director general Christian Ago Kodia.

“For the moment we are taking Ivorians and we want them to come en masse to have their CNI established or soon to be enrolled to obtain their NNI”.

Christian Ago Kodia called on the petitioners to go to the centers made available to them, reassuring about the deadlines for issuing the document sought.

“In a maximum of 14 days, or even less, people can have their new card, which is a revolutionary biometric card that will allow Côte d’Ivoire to rise to the rank of countries where identity is the most reliable possible” .

SOURCE: AGENCE IVOIRIENNE DE PRESSE