@Mpenzi; I think you are being overly paranoid. The system only gives name and registration centre. Nothing else. What do you say about the telephone directory that gives peoples names, tel numbers and postal addresses? Are they also abusing privacy?

NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 14 – The government has announced plans to register all Kenyans afresh in a new national digital database.

Deputy President William Ruto says the new measures are aimed at enhancing security and for purposes of planning.

“In order to address the prevailing security challenges, we intend to consolidate all current registers of persons into a single national register with accurate and relevant information,” said Ruto.

The database will contain biometric details of all persons, land, establishments and assets.

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Very intersting

Did you vote in the last Kenyan elections?

just google.i voted analogue. very juakali.no one bothered to ink my finger.had been given 2 governors ballots by carefree clerks in poorly lit tents.returned one though.biometrics kits dead. total failure.

kra

itax is on and off as we talk.

I'm concerned about this part.. "the database will contain biometric details of all persons, LAND, ESTABLISHMENTS and ASSETS."

This is a welcome move and can go a long way to be used even by other sectors of the economy to avoid fraudulent transactions. But my worry is how will it be managed? Will the illegal immigrant be given a chance to register n thus become legally recognized citizens? Will having the current ID be a prerequisite for being registered and will there be a way of confirming it in the existing data base?

I also heard it will be done by IEBC so that they don't need to register people afresh during elections or something like that. How will that be managed so that we don't have a case of "cooked" register in favor of certain candidates/regions?

This is very private information. Adequate restrictions to this data access is necessary e.g. in light of kidnappings carried out by rogue officers colluding with bank tellers. I'd hate to now have corrupt GoK adding to the mix.

KRA may be the biggest beneficiary of this.

Officers will not have access to that info but KRA yes. If anything the govt has this info already, believe me you wouldnt want the govt not to know that you own land somewhere.

I support the project. Kenyans just need reassurances on confidentiality of the data.

You do not want the typical hungry/broke and idle GoK employee accessing/fiddling with this data.

IEBC would work well for collection whilst KRA HQ would make a good custodian

Good work