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Angered by Matiang’i no-show, senators want Huduma Namba suspended

A clerk registers Water Principal Secretary Joseph Irungu for the NIIMIS at Kangaru in Embu County on February 20. A Senate committee wants the process suspended. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]

The ongoing Sh6 billion biometric registration of Kenyans that began in 15 counties this month risks suspension.

This, after the Senate security committee probing the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS)  today, directed the government to suspend the project.

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