President Uhuru Kenyatta has named an inter-ministerial committee chaired by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i to spearhead the process. The system is expected to generate unique identification numbers - Huduma Namba, to persons in the national population database. The Matiang’i-led team has been tasked to ensure the preservation, protection and security of the information or data collected, obtained, maintained and stored in the national population database. Read: New registration system to collect data on all KenyansPrincipal Secretaries will run the secretariat through a Principal Secretaries Co-ordination Committee of the Inter-ministerial Committee. “In the performance of its functions, the Inter-ministerial Committee shall report to the President; and regulate its own procedure,” Uhuru said in the December 5, 2018 appointments.

Source: The Star January 20, 2019 20:25 UTC