Experts warn Kenya’s Maisha Namba digital ID discriminative, threatens privacy
Published: 12/Mar/2025
Source: The Standard (Nairobi)
By Kamau Muthoni
Two experts have poured cold water on the Kenya Kwanza digital identification card project.
Prof Laura Bingham, an international law expert, and Dr Thomas Fisher, a senior researcher at Privacy International in the UK, yesterday raised questions on the Maisha Namba programme launched in 2023.
On June 30, 2023, President William Ruto claimed that the initial project, Huduma Namba, which cost Kenyans Sh15 billion, was a fraud, adding that Kenyans got “little out of it”.
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