Huduma Namba registration is on-going and in just 16 days on Easter President Uhuru Kenyatta was glad to announce that a whole 11 million people had already registered for their Huduma Namba.
However, that doesn’t mean great opposition from the new system has ended. On Wednesday members of the National Assembly voted to block the French firm that is providing the infrastructure from doing business in the country.
The MPs want Idemia Securities Limited, which was awarded the Sh6 billion tender, blocked for at least 10 years, citing a violation of the Companies Act and interference in the last two general elections.
MPs amended the report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the audited accounts of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and voted to have the firm held accountable for irregular payments it received in the 2017 General Election.
Well the ministry of information, communication and technology have clarified that the ongoing Huduma Namba registration will not be disrupted by the recent parliamentary recommendation seeking to debar Ms IDEMIA from operating in Kenya.
This they say is because the core registration software and associated infrastructure were engineered and integrated by local software engineers.
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“The 35,000 Morpho Tablet 2 data capture kits were the only hardware component supplied by IDEMIA. The kits were acquired on outright purchase and as such, there is no existing contract beyond this,” the ministry has stated in a statement.