Kenya Is Looking To Implement A New Digital System On Its Citizens, As It Plans To Digitize Most Government Services

The latest administration in Kenya is seeking to revamp the digital ID system in the country after receiving pushback and criticism from the people and other rights groups.

ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo said a couple of weeks ago that the state may look to scrap the previous biometric system called the “Huduma Namba,” that for all intents and purposes flopped as a whole.

‘Owalo said that it was intended to create a digital identity for virtual transactions between the government and the public but was not properly explained or introduced to the public, leading to suspicions and mistrust,’ Techweez reported.

The Huduma Namba was a well-intended initiative, but the process of introducing it into the marketplace was wrong. Whenever you are introducing something new of that nature, you need to explain to Kenyans why it is imperative to introduce such an initiative. They need to understand what it entails, and you need to seek stakeholders’ views. And one of the important stakeholders is the Kenyan public.

The pitfall that befell Huduma Namba was that there wasn’t adequate sensitization at the beginning, and you remember it was being launched at a time when there was also a clouded political atmosphere. So, there were suspicions around it.

I don’t want to call it Huduma Namba, I want to look at it from a conceptual perspective. What we are talking about here is a digital identity; you can call it Huduma Namba, or you can call it any other name… so let’s look at it from that concept, that we need a digital identity to facilitate virtual transactions between the government and members of the public.

Owalo said

Owalo said because of the failure of the previous system an identical new system will be released and encouraged for the people to adopt, per his speech.

All while this was going on President William Ruto has said that his administration will be looking digitize 5,000 government services. More specifically, he wants to especially target Kenyans in remote areas and to allow them to better access public resources while in the comfort of their own homes.

He said:

We want to make sure that Kenyans at home and those in the diaspora have access to government services easily without having to travel long distances without having to queue anywhere. I have undertaken that in the next six months will be digitized and will be available online, I mean all government services.

At the moment, we have only 300 services available online but in the next 6 months, we will have onboarded 5000 government services online and available on all digital platforms so that even when you are anywhere in the world, you can still access government services and we have put in place all mechanisms to make sure that happens.

We have also ensured that even in situations where biometrics are required they should be available where you are because that is a possibility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Aa-h_YE0g

Ruto and Kenyan officials made these statements one month after Bill Gates went on a tour throughout Kenya to check out the progress being made to transform the country’s food and agricultural systems, and promote using GMO and hybrid grains and livestock.

Ruto has made affinity with Mr. Gates and is very much on board with using GMO grains in the country, to the chagrin and fierce pushback from other politicians, farmers, and ordinary Kenyans.

As the leader of the country, I cannot endanger the lives of the people who elected me. Myself, I’m a scientist. Every scientist in Kenya agrees that GMO does not have any problems. South Africa, the United States is 100 percent GMO.

He said, responding to some of the arguments

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[2] When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. [4] The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

Proverbs 29:2, 4

Ruto and other Keyan officials have sold-out their country and people, and are just operating to the tune of quick money and power, unconcerned with the repercussions.

Thankfully many Kenyans and Africans still have great sense and continue to resist most of the digital tyranny, the fake foods, and the medical overreach – learning from years past of all the problems Bill Gates’ “cures” have caused them.

One must remember that hardly anyone in Africa got a Covid vaccine, and this was after many governments started imposing hefty restrictions and mandates, and eventually they just gave up because the people stood resolute. Good for them!

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Therefore, getting Africans to adopt a lot of this stuff will be a continuous uphill battle.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

1 Corinthians 16:13

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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