Kenya: Lobby Opposes New Citizen Listing System

Published: 19/Feb/2019
Source: The Nation (Nairobi)

The battle against a platform for digitising and centralising citizens and foreigners’ records was taken to court Monday.

Kenya Human Rights Commission wants the government stopped from implementing the National Integrated Identification Management System (Niims).

KHRC sued National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi, Attorney-General Paul Kariuki Kihara, Cabinet Secretaries Fred Matiang’i (Interior) and Joe Mucheru (ICT) as well as the Kenya Law Reform (KLR).

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Themes: Identity Documents, Birth Registration, ID Documents and Passports
Regions: Kenya
Year: 2019