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Only five of the potential twenty-six million Mozambican applicants were able to obtain identification cards during the seven years in which Semlex was in charge of proving the service.
Such is the conclusion of a report on the degree of compliance with the terms of the concession agreement entered into between the government and Semlex, commissioned to evaluate the level of satisfaction with the services rendered to the population.
According to data obtained by Notícias, it was on the basis on these indicators that the government decided to terminate the contract with the company.
Semlex itself forecast that 10.5 million people would have identity cards by now. The firm in fact processed 7,500 documents per day, well below the 22,000 promised in the contract.
According to the report Noticias has exclusive access to, at the current pace of ID card production, Semlex would need more than 30 years to cover the entire Mozambican population. This delay is creating disadvantages for the government, which had looked to Semlex’s ICT project as a means of optimising services provided to the citizen, Noticias writes.
As for issuing documents to foreigners, the report points out that during the term of the concession agreement, 164,578 Residence Permits [DIREs] were issued, 16,607 less than the 181,185 claimed by Semlex.
This discrepancy may be at the root of the estimated amount of alleged 310 million meticais debt the company claims to owe.
The report also mentions complaints that Residence Authorisation requested between 2011 and 2016 still have not yet been delivered.
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The government hoped granting the concession to Semlex would speed up the delivery, security and reliability of identity cards, especially in rural areas, as well as bringing the issuing of travel documents up to established international standards, but none of these objectives have been achieved.
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