Two experts have poured cold water on the Kenya Kwanza digital identification card project.
Prof Laura Bingham, an international law expert, and Dr Thomas Fisher, a senior researcher at Privacy International in the UK, yesterday raised questions on the Maisha Namba programme launched in 2023.
On June 30, 2023, President William Ruto claimed that the initial project, Huduma Namba, which cost Kenyans Sh15 billion, was a fraud, adding that Kenyans got "little out of it".
He then rolled out the digital ID project, which he said would cost Sh1 billion.
