As Kenyans rush to beat the Huduma Namba May 18 mass registration deadline, some unscrupulous agents have taken advantage of the situation to ask Kenyans for money to speed up the process.
Controversial blogger Robert Alai shared a post of a concerned Kenyans showing a top company bribing and even hiring taxis for agents to go their premises as poor Kenyans are left in long queues for hours.
“This company decided to bribe Huduma Number clerks, hired for them a taxi and took them all into their premises. That’s how this country operates now. Kenyans standing on the line remained there like kids of a lesser god,” he tweeted.
This company decided to bribe Huduma Number clerks, hired for them a taxi and took them all into their premises. That’s how this country operates now. Kenyans standing on the line remained there like kids of a lesser god. pic.twitter.com/d2QctuYvo3
— Robert Alai (@RobertAlai) May 16, 2019
Kenyans have slammed the incident bearing the fact that many are waiting patiently in long queues for over 3 hours.
The official Huduma Number Song. Lol @MigunaMiguna @bonifacemwangi pic.twitter.com/YEQiAQCYXA
— Khadija Abdullahi (@its_Khadija01) May 17, 2019
Here are some of the reactions:
That is how the world works Alai , when you grow up ..you will realise that..we will never be equal in a society
— gordwin muhambi (@gosinjiru) May 16, 2019
This is unacceptable…@FredMatiangi see your people now
— Dr.Njoroge Njogu (@JohnNjogu91944) May 16, 2019
It happened even in southc Nawiri junior school around the cid training institute.the owner of the school by the name Zainab brought three Huduma number guys to register all his family members and employee’s at 500each today the guys almost walked out of tehre with more than 100k
— Dela (@PrinceH93236389) May 16, 2019
@FredMatiangi ,Mr.Sir please I hope this information is with you,you have your intel and so we hope to see this thieves/idiots caught and taken to jail,they can’t make our people wait in the queue and yet they are in some premises doing business
— James omosa (@james_omosa) May 17, 2019
The reports of bribes by some agents has tainted the whole process, even for willing Kenyans.
Another Twitter user identified as Mougendi shared his shock on Twitter saying the officials had asked for Ksh.350 each for the process to be brought to their office.
Cost 1,000/- to register at Nyali primary 🤔
— tmutta| (@tmutta) May 15, 2019
Furthermore, a video has gone viral where one agent is seen asking for Sh300 per person as she claims the machines are faulty and she has to go for a new one.
The lady in the clip further assures those waiting to register that they will not have to queue once they part with the amount.
Kenyans online quickly weighed in on the matter and condemned the incident, calling for arrests to be made.
Here’s the video.
So I'm getting info that if you have more than two kids, you are not getting registered, reason being you have too many kids and the chief needs some cash to make the process faster for you… https://t.co/FoxgHtBzCG
— Shikoh Kihika (@Shikohkihika) May 6, 2019