Assistant Chiefs to Conduct Biometric Registration of Kenyans :: Kenya

NAIROBI, KENYA: Deputy Chiefs were appointed registrars for the digital recording and identification of all Kenyans of the National Integrated Management System of the United States. identity (NIIMS).

Directors were asked to recruit five investigators, each within their jurisdiction, who will work under their direction for the fiscal year planned for October and November of this year.

The Ministry of the Interior asked the leaders to choose young people aged 18 to 35 who must be residents of their respective neighborhoods, mastering the local language, computer and good behavior .

"As far as possible, they are looking for clerks of the Independent Electoral and Frontier Committee (IEBC) who are already trained in the use of biometric devices," says a circular dated 23 July 2018.

The circular signed by Amos Gatheca for the position of Principal Secretary (PS) and addressed to the 47 County Commissioners, asked the Chiefs to return the forms to the President's Office by Friday, August 3.

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NIIMS, according to the government, will ensure that all identity documents, refugee cards, birth certificates, death certificates, driver's licenses and pbadport documents are printed and distributed to central place.

Other documents that the system must manage under the proposed amendments are foreign certificates, work permits, foreign travel documents and student identification cards. .

Last week, ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru said the system would create, manage and operate a national population registry as a single source of personal information for all Kenyan and foreign citizens registered in the country. country.

"It is essential that we have an approach as a government where we have a single source of truth, a central reference for registration information and data about our citizens." It will be a database for all Kenyans and not just for the over 18s, but it is everyone.This will help us provide very effective services to our citizens, "Mucheru said.

The SC explained that the system will have up-to-date information on citizens from birth to death and will help the government to plan and reduce the costs of operation and to detect or prevent fraud, l & # 39; Identity theft or any other criminal activity.

"The initiative aims to consolidate population registration information into a single database to facilitate verification by both government and private agencies," he added.

Kenya says the ambitious system will be designed so that all documents ranging from birth certificate, school certificate, driver's license, Kenya Revenue Authority PIN and all other documents will be accessible to the simple touch of a button.

It will be advanced to the extent that when a person dies, the system marks the deceased person and any information that will be useful during the elections, to get rid of the "ghost voters"

Other sectors such as the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) will be able to use the data .

The ministry is also seeking to introduce Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates into people registration, which allows tracking of their location through satellite capabilities.