Government to Issue Kenyan Kids Six Years Or Older with IDs
The government has revealed plans to issue identity cards to six-year-old children under the Huduma Namba program.
The special IDs dubbed Minor’s Huduma Card will be issued once a child attains the age of six, according to Interior Principal Secretary Dr. Karanja Kibicho.
He explained that babies will be assigned a unique number upon birth, which will be used to register them for the Minor’s Huduma Card when they turn six.
“When you are born you get a birth notification, after which a birth certificate with a number is generated. Then at the age of six; you go to a school where the Ministry of Education will want to register you under the National Education Management Information System (Nemis) and give you a Nemis Number,” the PS explained.
The same number will be used when applying for a national identity card when the kids are 18 years old.
Kibicho said the government settled for six-year-olds because, at this age, one’s facial biometrics are well-formed, and can be captured.
Similarly, there will be a special Huduma Card designated for foreign nationals and refugees living in the country.
Last week, Kibicho announced the government will soon roll out the second round of Huduma Namba mass registration while the mass production of e-cards will commence in December.
Kibicho pointed out that the cards will have an electronic cheap containing all the data of a person and Kenyans will no longer need to carry documents such as national IDs, NHIF, and NSSF cards.
“What we have in our records must match what is in the database 100% for us to be sure that the person who presented him or herself before us is the person we shall admit as a Kenyan.”
“There are 90 fingerprints experts working on this, and so far about 14 million of the 37 million data sets have been cleaned up,” he added
Comments (9)
Modeling USA,Social Security Numbers system.
Kibicho, leave our kids alone.
What is the hurry?
Who is responsible for this ID's
Six year old cannot even wash their clothes.
Whose idea is this?
THe very thieves !! this is about money theft just like huduma cards. A child ID is BIRTH CERTIFICATE. Believe me this is another scheme to rob the tax payer - it never ends
“When you are born you get a birth notification”, after which a birth certificate with a number is generated. Hahaha, kumbe I was born? I thought I was bought at a supermarket. Loool. Need I say more? I think we can laugh together at that statement.
Karanja Kibicho needs to stay away from small children.
A peadophile hiding behind Huduma Number.
What will this government do with all this numbers.Census should have given them whatever information they needed.Right now it cannot manage the data of it’s working population that is collect tax effectively.Now it is stretching itself to children explain why you would need a child’s number if not to falsify numbers we are approaching an election and soon you will hear your child voted in Pokot.All this bull shit just before elections mara BBI huduma number another way to steal votes.Census numbers should suffice looking for ways to shut out potential voters and in the process confusing others
@guest do you know what BBI MEANS = BE BY I so that we can extend our legacy of holding Kenyans at a gunpoint
Why does the Huduma card have a MasterCard Logo on it?
There are 90 fingerprints experts working on this, and so far about 14 million of the 37 million data sets have been cleaned up,” he added THIS IS BULLL SHIT! (90 EXPERTS WHO ARE BEING PAID FOR NOTHING! When will taking Kenyans for granted end . Kenyans are not idiots we are just too patient but french revolution was after years of oppression . enough is enough we will also be by us as you are be by I BBI