Interior Principal Secretary Karanja Kibicho on Wednesday broke his silence after the Nubian community sued the government over the National Integrated Identity Management System dubbed Huduma Namba.
The community claimed that Huduma Namba is a biased system meant to deny them their rights because of their small population.
Kibicho, however, dismissed the allegations saying that the system was embraced by the national government as a way to better planning and improvement of service delivery across different sectors of the economy.
“We have had cases of people sharing identity card numbers and in many cases, non-Kenyans who have the documents. The system will cure all these,” he said, as quoted by Daily Nation.
He insisted that the claims that some of the communities have been sidelined as not sincere. He affirmed that the discrimination claims are meant to derail the agenda of the government as far as the programme is concerned.
The Nubian Rights Forum and Kenya Human Rights Commission went to court seeking clarification on why the system looks biased.
The commission said that the rights of the Nubian community will be addressed to the latter. Dr Kibicho, who was speaking before a bench of three judges, said that the cases of adulteration of data will not be reported.
Kibicho also said that the government managed to get data of 38 million people during Huduma Namba registration.