Namibia has become the first country in the Southern African Development Community to launch an automated biometric identification system.The system is used in the issuance of personal conduct certificates, which previously took a year to produce. Once the 40 million Namibian dollars (2.8 million U.S dollars) system starts operating, conduct certificates and any other functions to do with fingerprints will be done within two weeks in Windhoek and about one month outside the capital.The system that was developed in Namibia has two biometric components- the fingerprinting and facial identification.Speaking during the launch of the first phase in Windhoek Friday, Police Inspector General Sebastian Ndeitunga said the system will eradicate corruption. “We need to be careful who we allow to operate this system we have to be very much awake and vigilante because they can also invent tactics to evades this system,” Ndeitunga said.
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