Fact-checker: Huduma Namba is not '666', register if you want

President Uhuru Kenyatta launches the National Integrated Identity Management System (Huduma Namba) registration at Masii, Machakos County. He said there is no connection between biblical prophecy and the number.

The countrywide roll-out of the National Integrated Identity Management System (Huduma Namba) registration has stirred various reactions in the country.

Those who support the initiative have called it a positive step towards fighting crime, managing personal data and weeding out ghost workers.

But circles opposed to the initiative say that the Government has no clear-cut private data protection laws to operationalise the Huduma Namba registration without assuring against  the breach of security which could find private and sensitive data in the wrong hands. 

 Some Christians have sensationally claimed that the Huduma Namba this could be the fulfilment of satanic code 666 written about by Apostle John Revelation.

On Tuesday, President Uhuru Kenyatta explained that there was no connection between biblical prophecy and the number. 

There is no connection between the Huduma Namba and the 666. The NIIMS is only rolled out in Kenya, and as a matter of fact, it will not be used to control buying and selling so that those who dissent are persecuted.

According to Revelations 13:18, the 666 is a number of a man. The author further explains that understanding it calls for wisdom and understanding. The text reads: "This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666." (Rev 13:18).

The 666 is a title attached to a civil-religious power described as the Beast power in Revelations 1:1-3.