By FRED MUKINDAMore by this AuthorBy JOHN NJAGIMore by this AuthorThe National Youth Service (NYS) on Tuesday opened its biometric data for scrutiny to address the claim by some Opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) that it was secretly registering voters. Experts working for Cord as well as the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission were among the first to get access to confiscated NYS biometric kits at Gigiri Police Station in Nairobi. Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki said the data was solely for use by NYS in management of Youth Empowerment Programmes. “The biometric registration was adopted by NYS in registering the Youth Empowerment Program beneficiaries to streamline identification, payment, and management of cohorts,” she said in a statement. We have 180 biometric registration kits given to NYS for purposes of registering the youth to work under different service cohorts.

Source: Daily Nation February 14, 2017 21:22 UTC