Blow to Uhuru Kenyatta's Huduma Namba as Parliament blocks company providing technology

- Parliament wants Idemia investigated by DCI within 60 days and money paid to it recovered

- The company has changed its name three times since it started operating in the country

- It has been put on spot over questionable conduct when it provided IEBC with infrastructure in 2017 General Polls

- Lawmakers say the company has not been registered either as a foreign or Kenyan company

The success of ongoing registration of citizens in the National Integrated Identity Management System (Niims) has been thrown into uncertainty after Parliament moved that the company providing technological infrastructure for the exercise be blacklisted.

This emerged on Wednesday, April 24, during a Parliamentary Committee sitting that recommended Idemia to be investigated by the DCI and banned from doing business in Kenya for the next 10 years.

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President Uhuru Kenyatta is emphatic Huduma Namba will help streamline service delivery. Photo: UGC
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Lawmakers accused the firm of double standards, flouting the Companies Act and questionable conduct when it provided infrastructure for the 2017 General Election.

The company (Idemia), which was formerly known as OT Morpho and M/S Morpho, according to MPs does not have a known office or address in Kenya.

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It has also been put on the spot for not having documents showing whether it is registered in the country as a Kenyan or foreign company.

"Why should they have double standards, what OT Morpho is doing in Kenya, it can't do in Paris, London or Paris. Where you see such change on names, there is issues," said Majority Leader Aden Dual

Despite winning the multibillion tender to provide back born infrastructure for Huduma Namba registration, the same company is set to support the August 2019 national population census.

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At least 11 million Kenyans have been registered for the number which President Uhuru is emphatic will help streamline service delivery.

Apart from legal turbulence hitting the exercise, it has also faced rejection by a some religious who have since branded it as satanic.

Huduma Namba is expected to incorporate all other citizen documents, for instance, NHIF, NSSF, driving permit and birth certificate in one card.

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