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"I was skeptical at first," students narrate Worldcoin registration experience

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Some students whose irises were scanned appear before the Ad Hoc Committee of inquiry on the Worldcoin controversy. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

A section of students whose irises were scanned by a cryptocurrency project, Worldcoin, have continued to narrate their ordeal before the Ad Hoc Committee of Inquiry into the controversy.

Among the students is Bruce Bogita Minyega, a law student, who explained the ridicule he suffered from his peers after he confessed to being among those whose irises were scanned.

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