SENATOR Panfilo Lacson on Tuesday urged the government to resolve some pestering issues on the implementation of National ID system, quickly and surely.

“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,” Lacson stressed.

Lacson cited several issues in the implementation including controversies that attended the awarding of contracts in outsourcing supply and services, to the crashing of the Philippine Statistics Authority website due to the unanticipated surge of applicants.

“And now the long hours of waiting just to register and God knows what else,” Lacson stressed.

The senator said the key to the effective implementation of the National ID System (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 stressed.

“Finally, it was enacted into law in 2018. It has already taken a long time since its passage and the implementation of the said law is now taking off the ground. If the issues are left unaddressed, it will be another missed opportunity to uplift the lives of our people in more ways than one,” the lawmaker further said.

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