On July 2 this year, the Olusegun Mimiko led
administration will begin the implementation of a
mult-purpose smartcard, Kaadi Igbe Ayo, in Ondo
State. While smart card technology has been
deployed by several governments for specific
purposes, to date, there has been no multi-purpose
smart card powered by the social democratic
mantra of democratising access to all the good
things of life, through which citizens can access and
enjoy all the dividends of democracy, a card that
would make it impossible for the people to be
cheated. This is precisely what Kaadi Igbe Ayo (KAI),
Ondo State’s latest in digitalised service delivery, is
targeted at achieving. In accordance with its name
(literally, card of joyful living), KAI is being
deployed by the Ondo State government to
facilitate strategic planning and development,
efficient record keeping, human resource
monitoring in the public sector, anti-corruption
drive and solutions, while enabling a higher level of
qualitative/quantitative service delivery in the
health, education, transport and agro-allied sectors.
The residency card, it has been established, would
serve as an interface in all transactions between the
government and residents, allow all residents equal
access to government’s social and welfare services
and allow government to monitor the distribution
of such services even to the remotest parts of the
state at every point. But that is not all: it facilitates
the systematic development of databases for
efficient security and surveillance purposes, the
categorisation of citizens for employment, taxation
and financial palliatives, the use/management of
public facilities (public transport, subsidized
consumer products, even fertilizer). You can even
advertise your goods at the back of the card.
During the formal launching of Kaadi Igbe Ayo in
February 2013 at an occasion attended by the late
Deji of Akure, HRH Adebiyi Adesida, the Osemawe
of Ondo, HRH Victor Kiladejo; the Zaki of Arigidi,
HRH Yisa Olanipekun, and many other royal fathers
from across the state; Information Minister, Labaran
Maku; Governor Olusegun Mimiko and his wife,
Oluwakemi; a former governor of Ondo State,
Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua; members of the
Ondo State House of Assembly, the President,
Customary Court, Justice Folasade Aguda-Taiwo; Dr
Olu Agunloye, members of the immediate past
cabinet; market women, the many pregnant women
clad in T-shirts, the artisans and members of the
National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW),
among others, the Federal Government had
indicated that it would key into the project on a
national scale.
Speaking on behalf of the Federal Government, the
then Information Minister, Labaran Maku, had
described Governor Mimiko as a pace setter in
governance in the country and an unparalleled
disciple of the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo who
had, through revolutionary programmes in health,
education, health, urban development, job creation,
agriculture and commerce, among others, tackled
poverty and improved the wellbeing of the majority
of the people. He said: “This is a historic, ground-
breaking technological invention. I have come to
launch a smart card that is, in all senses, truly
revolutionary, the first in Nigeria and the world. This
card is about welfare. I have been on good
governance tour and these are the kinds of things
that we want to see,’’ while revealing that the
Federal Government would key into the KAI project
to evolve a new identification card for every
Nigerian.
On that occasion, Governor Olusegun Mimiko,
while detailing the welfare-based, benefits-driven
governance which mandated the prioritization of
certain people-oriented projects in the last four
years, including the Mother & Child Hospitals; Abiye
Maternal Care Centres; Mega-Primary Schools; over
650 purpose-specific and state-wide community
projects and countless such other efforts in road
reconstruction, urban renewal and city
beautification, had said the smartcard initiative was
in fulfilment of his 2009 inauguration promise to
provide efficient service delivery to the people,
adding that the continued success of the
government’s programmes in different sectors
meant that it was essential to better manage,
expand, and improve on the planning and execution
of the programmes.
He had observed: “As a concept, Kaadi Igbe Ayo is
a project to facilitate sustainable government
service delivery to citizens of the state. The project
will ensure that integrity, accountability, data
collection and reporting, analysis and research will
be possible in the planning and execution of
benefits and entitlements schemes by government.
The overall functional purpose and relevance of
what we have come here to inaugurate today
therefore, lie in the possibility of using the Kaadi
Igbe-Ayo as the electronic vehicle to achieve the
above stated policy goals.
“We want to know our own people. If we are giving
out a bag of rice per person, you cannot collect it
without that card. If you have collected your own
bag and you return to collect another one, that card
would tell you that you are a thief. A banker cannot
remove his tie and go and collect fertilizer meant for
farmers. If you don’t pay your tax, the card will
show us that and we will ask your children to go
back home when they come to attend the mega
schools. What will facilitate good living is for us all
to do the things that we are supposed to do.”
At the second National Council Meeting on
Communication Technology (NCCT), which held in
Akure, the Ondo State Capital, September 3, 2013,
Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs
Omobola Johnson, speaking on the rationale for
holding the meeting in the state, had noted that
the government’s bias for ICT- driven programmes
informed the decision. Ondo is, in her words, one of
the most progressive states in the field of
leveraging ICTs for socio-economic benefit of its
citizens and indigenes. The minister cited the Abiye
programme, a world recognised initiative to
significantly reduce maternal and child mortality
with the simple technology of a mobile phone and
the Kaadi Igbe Ayo, a bio-metric card that will aid
the targeted delivery of social and other services to
citizens.
Governor Olusegun Mimiko, on his part, said: “The
21st Century has been aptly described as the
‘Information Age’ and Nigeria cannot afford to be
sidelined in the myriad of innovation and creativity
that are the hallmarks of globalisation. From the
common desktop computers to the ubiquitous
smartphones, tablets and most recently ‘Phablets’ it
is crystal clear, ICT has become very much the core
of modern civilisation. A major push in this regard is
the introduction of the Ondo State Residency Card
project (otherwise known as Kaadi Igbe Ayo) which
was envisioned as a veritable platform for multi-
purpose welfare services management for all
citizens and residents in the state. Kaadi Igbe Ayo
is being deployed towards strategic planning and
development in the state; efficient record keeping
and management of human resources in the public
and social sectors.
“In particular, the platform is a veritable tool in the
scaling up of qualitative and quantitative delivery in
our people-oriented sub sector such as health,
education, transportation and agriculture.
Interestingly too, the project is facilitating the
systematic development of database for efficient
security and surveillance purposes,” he said, while
expressing the hope that the document would be
reviewed from time to time to keep pace with
breathtaking developments in the field and broaden
and deepen stakeholders’ buy-in and ensure greater
flexibility in fundamental infrastructural issues like
fibre versus wireless preference.
“Our job is not finished until we have taken all our
people to the cyber space where information and
knowledge truly reside. We must indeed take all
Nigerians to the cyberspace. This government is
fully committed towards putting Ondo State in the
forefront of the evolving ICT revolution. We shall
continue to explore ways and means of making the
governmental machinery and the entire people of
Ondo State more ICT-competent and oriented.”
That, in a nutshell, is the message of Kaadi Igbe
Ayo.

Real scam

Source: www.tribuneonlineng.com/content/ondo-rolls-out-kaadi-igbe-ayo-smartcard-digitalised-service-delivery

#2000 igbe-ayo card for the unemployed, students etc. Only God can save us from politicians in Ondo state.

Ajascolove:
#2000 igbe-ayo card for the unemployed, students etc. Only God can save us from politicians in Ondo state.

is not compulsory you buy it mr,for a state that offers free shuttle buses to all students across the state,free maternity care to all pregnant woman then I think is normal if the card is sold for 2k,the main thing is to get the bio data of everybody that resides in the state,osun people who don't vote or pay taxes in ondo state come to ondo mother and child hospitals to deliver free,that really need to stop.

siraj1402:
Real scam

MORE than 70 per cent of beneficiaries of Ondo
State’s free healthcare are non-residents, it
emerged at the weekend.
The indication followed the successful take-off of
the utilization phase of the state government’s
Residency Card scheme, also known as Kaadi
Igbeayo. Enforcement of the card usage
commenced with the health sector last week.
Information Commissioner Kayode Akinmade had
mentioned before the utilization kick-
off that government would focus on initial four
sctors for the card usage. He also stressed that
government would not compromise its order that
non-carrier of the card would not be allowed access
to government social services. He mentioned the
sectors as health, education, agriculture and micro-
finance.
Indications had emerged that the health sector was
beginning to experience the effect of the full
implementation of the card as efforts were being
made to ensure that non-residents who flock in
from neighboring states and the north to enjoy its
free healthcare begin to pay a token.
In apparent
demonstration
of its resolve to
enforce the
usage of the
smart card, the
Commissioner
for Health, Dr
Dayo
Adeyanju, in
company with
the Chairman,
Civic Data
Centre, Mr. Tunde Yadeka, at the weekend toured
medical facilities.

Michdear:
MORE than 70 per cent of beneficiaries of Ondo
State’s free healthcare are non-residents, it
emerged at the weekend.
The indication followed the successful take-off of
the utilization phase of the state government’s
Residency Card scheme, also known as Kaadi
Igbeayo. Enforcement of the card usage
commenced with the health sector last week.
Information Commissioner Kayode Akinmade had
mentioned before the utilization kick-
off that government would focus on initial four
sctors for the card usage. He also stressed that
government would not compromise its order that
non-carrier of the card would not be allowed access
to government social services. He mentioned the
sectors as health, education, agriculture and micro-
finance.
Indications had emerged that the health sector was
beginning to experience the effect of the full
implementation of the card as efforts were being
made to ensure that non-residents who flock in
from neighboring states and the north to enjoy its
free healthcare begin to pay a token.
In apparent
demonstration
of its resolve to
enforce the
usage of the
smart card, the
Commissioner
for Health, Dr
Dayo
Adeyanju, in
company with
the Chairman,
Civic Data
Centre, Mr. Tunde Yadeka, at the weekend toured
medical facilities.

I knew not that I don't know.i know why I called it a scam.Mind you I printed some of those cards.

siraj1402:
I knew not that I don't know.i know why I called it a scam.Mind you I printed some of those cards.

tell me more

Michdear:
tell me more

I worked with tecvibes and the production of the cards was done by us.The issuance and even the preparation of the database. We were around 13 in number that started the job.As at late 2012,more than 300,000 cards has been produced with little issued out under abiye,precisely at mothe and child oke aro.Also some health personnel was trained by us on how to use the card as there is a section in it that stored health info.Really,its a complete social security card and will really cob frud as you can easily programme the database to get an estimated number of a specific people when need arises. We did that of farmers then to check yhe diversion of fertiliser.As a staff then we were scammed as we work day and night with no weekends upon the promise that we will be retailed,only one of us scaped through under civic data center created by mimiko which I can called sub SITA(State Information Technology Agency).Though that never disturb me as life always goes on.Now Mimiko administration will be coming to an end in less than 2 years. Do you think its must for next governor even under PDP to continue with it?Out of his 8 years the cards might not even function for full 1 year and people where using money to collect the card that over 300,000 is on ground with no collection. Those involved Tunde Yadeka,Lanwa Adebulumo,Yusuff Waheed,a formal member of the board Aluko and even Yadeka's predecessor Egunlayi have made hell of money out of the programme. I have more than enough to say . Just let's forget it.I guess uou were working with them,if yes you were only fortunate as some people have suffered for that.