Ruto chides Uhuru Kenyatta over stalled Huduma Namba project
Ruto issues new order over the stalled Huduma Namba project launched by his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta
Ruto issues new order over the stalled Huduma Namba project launched by his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta.
Speaking to a delegation at Data Protection Conference in Nairobi, on Thursday, January 27, Ruto ordered government agencies to actualize Huduma Numba within the next twelve months.
The president in particular asked ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo to put in place systems and structures that will ensure that the Huduma Namba project is a success.
“I have asked my good friend Eliud to work on it so that big Huduma Namba things that never were, we can finally have a digital identity,” he said.
At the same time, Ruto criticized the government of President Uhuru for failing to complete the project.
“The Huduma-thing that never was must be a success. It’s not the work of the government to issue identification numbers, it is the work of the government to identify the citizens,” Ruto affirmed.
The project was initiated during Uhuru’s regime in order to harmonise approaches that seek to address duplication of efforts and to cut costs in registration processes.
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Just months before the 2022 General Election, Uhuru’s main project, on the other hand, appeared to have reached a dead end.
The Huduma Namba project began with the consolidation of data from primary population registration agencies to the national data management departments in the government.
Through Executive Order No. 1 (2018), former President Uhuru Kenyatta established the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) program whose mandate is to manage Kenyans’ identification structures.
“The purpose of this initiative is to create and manage a central master population database which will be the ‘single source of truth’ on a person’s identity,” the Ministry of ICT explained on its website.
NIIMS database is configured to run information on all Kenyan citizens and foreign nationals residing in Kenya and to serve as a reference point for ease of service delivery to the people of Kenya.
The initial attempt to consolidate Kenyans’ data was conducted in 2005 when the government initiated the registration of persons in the country.
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