{"id":22191,"date":"2019-04-02T08:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T08:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22191"},"modified":"2019-04-03T08:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:15:42","slug":"kenya-court-okays-huduma-namba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-court-okays-huduma-namba\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Court okays Huduma Namba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State barred by court from compelling anyone to surrender their DNA or biometrics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta has dispatched Raila Odinga and other high-profile personalities to oversee the controversial Huduma Namba launch.The exercise starts today and ends on April 16.<\/p>\n<p>Plans are going ahead after a court yesterday declined to stop the registration and ruled that the state could proceed with Huduma Namba and biometrics collection. The case will be mentioned on April 30.<\/p>\n<p>However, it set strict conditions, saying no one shall be compelled to participate or surrender DNA. No one will be forced to register in the system as a condition for receiving citizen services and facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Kenya Human Rights Commission and Nubian Rights Forum had moved to court seeking the suspension of collection of data from Kenyans under NIIMS.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001319110\/court-declines-to-stop-huduma-namba-rollout-but-lifts-compulsory-caveat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001319110\/court-declines-to-stop-huduma-namba-rollout-but-lifts-compulsory-caveat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State barred by court from compelling anyone to surrender their DNA or biometrics President Uhuru Kenyatta has dispatched Raila Odinga and other high-profile personalities to oversee the controversial Huduma Namba launch.The exercise starts today and ends on April 16. Plans are going ahead after a court yesterday declined to stop the registration and ruled that [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22205,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191\/revisions\/22205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}