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No, Huduma Namba is not Mark of the Beast, here's why

Ever since President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) that seeks to give everyone in the country a unique code dubbed “Huduma Namba,” there has been much speculation about whether this could be a tool used to enforce the biblical “mark of the beast.”

For those who will not be registered in the NIIMS, it will be difficult to access certain essential services. The identification you use now to transact business or to apply for a passport and birth certificate may no longer be acceptable in the eyes of those in power.

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