The National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) has been suspended by the Senate until further notice.
According to the legislators, the exercise will only continue once Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi and his ICT counterpart Joe Mucheru appear before the Senate Standing Committee on National Security, Defense and, Foreign Relations on March 11, 2019.
The NIIMS exercise popularly known by Huduma Namba posed a lot of questions regarding the safety of informations from citizens.
The exercise was criticized by lawyers and activists for they called it a scheme to steal from poor Kenyans.
The two CSs, who had sent their administrative secretaries to represent them, were criticized by senators among them Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja for snubbing Thursday’s summons besides the intensity of the matter.
The Committee was seeking answers from the two regarding issues among them why Parliament was not briefed on the intended registration before the roll out.
CSs Matiangi and Mucheru were expected to appraise the legislators on the National Integrated Identity Management System, following concerns raised by Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot.
The Kericho senator had also quizzed what justifies the registration process given the amount of personal data that will be collected from citizens.