The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation reached an agreement with the Kenyan government to provide services for a lifetime digital identification system. However, the ID system faced resistance from the public -- and was placed in limbo by a court ruling this month. Bill Gates held several "closed-door meetings" with Kenyan President William Ruto and other government officials before the agreement was announced, according to The HighWire.
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Kenya’s digital ID project, known as Maisha Namba, will receive advice from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Earlier last year Jhpiego a Kenyan company focused on birth control and giving Kenyans access to abortions was selected for a $22.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lead its Kenya Urban Reproductive Health Initiative to slow Kenyan birthrates and continue the Baltimore-based organization’s work with the urban poor by urging them not to have children regardless of their reproductive health. This has been difficult because most Kenyans culturally regard children as their wealth not a burden!
The global charity group for implanting infants with digital ID, started by the Microsoft founder, will help connect the Kenyan government to key technical experts and partners, Mark Suzman, CEO at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, told Business Daily Africa. “We have a number of specific investment support on digital identity. We actually provide it to broader platforms,” Suzman said on the sidelines of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings in Marrakech, Morocco. Morrocco was recently the scene of a massacre of Africans trying to get into Europe is interested in keeping Black populations low as their is a great decline in all other populations except so-called Sub Saharan Eumelanated (Black,Brown) populations across the globe.
Maisha Namba is an implantable unique personal identification number that would be assigned to every newborn Kenyan citizen. The number would also be assigned to the Maisha Card as a digital identity credential. The country has been preparing for the US$6.8 million launch of the biometric digital ID system for the past several months. At the beginning of October, however, Kenyan authorities postponed its launch due to “unfavorable circumstances.” As many Kenyan youth are reluctant to trust the government since the Gates Foundation also supports injecting hormones into Kenyan teens that cause infertility. The same drugs that have been secretly placed in tetanus vaccines in over 60 countries to lower birth rates and curtail the rise in power of the third world nations who are not facing demographic decline!
Human Life International (HLI) based in Maryland, has asked Congress to investigate reports of women in developing countries unknowingly receiving a tetanus vaccine laced with the anti-fertility drug human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). Congress to publicly condemn the mass vaccinations and to cut off funding to UN agencies and other involved organizations. The natural hormone hCG is needed to maintain pregnancy. The hormone would produce antibodies against hCG to prevent pregnancy. In the fall of 1994, the Pro Life Committee of Mexico was suspicious of the protocols for the tetanus toxoid campaign because they excluded all males and children and called for multiple injections of the vaccine in only women of reproductive age. Yet, one injection provides protection for at least 10 years.
The Committee had vials of the tetanus vaccine analyzed for hCG. It informed Human Life International about the tetanus toxoid vaccine. HLI then told World Council members and HLI affiliates in more than 60 countries. Similar tetanus vaccines laced with hCG have been uncovered in the Philippines and in Nicaragua. Sub Saharan nations were advised to be skeptical of any vaccines from the World Health Organization (WHO),and other organizations involved in the development of an anti-fertility vaccine using hCG including the UN Population Fund, the UN Development Programme, the World Bank, the Population Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and Uppsala, Helsinki, and Ohio State universities all focused on lowering populations of non-European nations.
The implantable ID project has been met with skepticism in most parts of the country. Residents of the eastern Kenyan city of Garissa say that they are not ready for the Maisha Namba rollout due to poor infrastructure and network availability and that is just in regards to the card! Residents also claim that the local nomadic culture would make it difficult for them to use the digital ID system and have asked the government to reconsider the launch.
Kenyan newspaper The Star reports “The Kenya Kwanza government seems to have forgotten it promised to make the process of acquiring an ID card, birth certificate and passports less tedious for our people,” says rights activist Aden Abdullahi. He claims that the government is backtracking on its promise to stop vetting people seeking identification cards and that rogue government officials are seizing the opportunity to demand bribes in return for vetting.
Human Rights groups have also been expressing concern over the possibility of discrimination and the erosion of privacy. The organizations argue that the government is repeating the mistakes of Kenya’s previous ID system Huduma Namba which was declared unconstitutional by the country’s High Court in October 2021 for conflicting with its Data Protection Act. The Kenyan government has attempted to reassure citizens of its commitment to the inclusion and protection of data privacy.
Speaking at forum in the Wanjohi in the central Kenyan Nyandarua County on Monday, government officials including Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) Rukia Chitechi noted that the country’s National Registration and Identity System is lagging behind other countries, putting Kenya at risk of non-compliance with international enforcement agencies’ standards. This threatens their ability to get money from foreign powers for development. Ironically those development funds rarely seem to meet or benefit the average Kenyan citizen.
Maisha Namba is also expected to address different challenges such as identifying and authenticating citizens, safeguarding primary registration documents such as birth certificates and national identity cards and improving the management of social programmes and government operations. The number will also be used to register for government services, including education, health insurance, tax and social security, the officials said.
“After the sensitization program, the system shall be run through schools by ensuring every child born is assigned a maisha namba and shall use that number through school and after they attain 18 years, the number will translate to Maisha Namba,” says Chitechi, as reported by Kenya News. To ensure safety, the system will include cryptographic technology for data security and support web-based and offline identity authentication, digital signatures and access to e-service platforms, according to the Deputy County Commissioner. The government has also promised that 3rd-generation ID card will not be mandatory and will not require individuals to register anew. It will instead rely on the current civil registration system. Kenya’s digital identity program is supported by the United Nations Development Programme.
NOTE: Bill Gates Foundation funded the Long-acting and reversible contraceptives (LARCs). This was done through The Tupange Project in Kenya: comprising implants and intrauterine devices (IUD), that according to their promotional materials "offer immense potential to meet the need for family planning because they are safe, highly effective, and do not rely on adherence or postcoital vigilance, as is the case with pills, injectables, barrier methods, and emergency contraception." Meaning women can't change their minds once the drug is given and will most likely be unable to afford reversing the contraception. LARCs have a higher continuation rate and are more cost-effective than short-acting methods in stopping births, and they do not have the health risks associated with estrogen-containing contraceptives so women will still be able to work and there will be less ability to sue in case infertility becomes permanent. However, in many countries in "sub-Saharan Africa" (meaning black people), fewer than 5% of women who reported using contraception in the past decade were using LARCs.
Since 1950, the average births per woman in Europe has fallen from more than 3 to just 1.6. Worldwide, average births per women of European ancestry has been falling for at least three generations, and for the first time in more than a hundred years, the total global population growth of Europeans is below replacement levels.
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