Don’t make people line up: Lacson wants shorter queues for nat’l ID registration

Senator Panfilo Lacson urged the government Tuesday (July 6) to resolve the problem of long queues at national ID registration sites to encourage more people to sign up.

Lacson, who sponsored what is now Republic Act 11055 or the PhilSys Act of 2018, said there have been reports of many Filipinos lining up way before dawn to register for a National ID. Many have complained of the long hours of waiting.

“If the national government is really serious to implement the National ID system and capture as many registrants and serve the purpose of better delivery of social services to our people – including more efficient revenue collection, effective anti-corruption and anti-criminality efforts and the like – they better resolve some pestering issues quickly and surely,” he said in a statement.

Lacson said that while the National ID law has finally taken off the ground, it has been slowed by several issues, including the controversies that attended the awarding of contracts in outsourcing supply and services, and the crashing of the Philippine Statistics Authority website.

The latest issues include the unanticipated surge of applicants, and now the long hours of waiting just to register – “and God knows what else,” Lacson lamented.

“The key to the effective implementation of the National ID System or PhilSys Act is our ability to ‘capture the universe’ and encourage as many Filipinos to sign up and register. That much I used as one of my arguments while sponsoring and defending the measure on the Senate floor three to four years ago,” he said.

“If the issues are left unaddressed, it will be another missed opportunity to uplift the lives of our people in more ways than one,” he added.

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