Nubian Rights Forum & 2 others v Attorney General & 6 others; Child Welfare Society & 9 others (Interested Parties) [2020] eKLR MUSLIMS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE.............3RD INTERESTED PARTY HAKI CENTRE......................................................................4TH INTERESTED PARTY LAW SOCIETY OF KENYA.................................................5TH INTERESTED PARTY INFORM ACTION.................................................................6TH INTERESTED PARTY BUNGE LA WANAINCHI.....................................................7TH INTERESTED PARTY INTERNATIONAL POLICY GROUP.................................8TH INTERESTED PARTY TERROR VICTIMS SUPPORT INITIATIVE....................9TH INTERESTED PARTY JUDGMENT INTRODUCTION 1. On 20th November 2018, the National Assembly enacted Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Act No. 18 of 2018. The President of the Republic of Kenya gave his assent to the said Act on 31st December 2018, and it commenced operation on 18th January 2019. 2. The effect of the Act was to amend several provisions of a number of existing statutes, among them the Registration of Persons Act (Cap 107 of the Laws of Kenya) (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”). The amendments to the Act establishes a National Integrated Identity Management System (hereinafter “NIIMS”) that is intended to be a single source of personal information of all Kenyans as well as foreigners resident in Kenya. 3. A new section 9A was introduced to the Act by the amendments, and it established NIIMS in the following manner: “9A (1) There is established a National Integrated Identity Management System. (2) The functions of the system are — (a) to create, manage, maintain and operate a national population register as a single source of personal information of all Kenyan citizens and registered foreigners resident in Kenya; (b) to assign a unique national identification number to every person registered in the register; (c) to harmonise, incorporate and collate into the register, information from other databases in Government agencies relating to registration of persons; (d) to support the printing and distribution for collection all national identification cards, refugee cards, foreigner certificates, birth and death certificates, driving licenses, work permits, passport and foreign travel documentation, student identification cards issued under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, Basic Education Act, Registration of Persons Act, Refugees Act, Traffic Act and the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act and all other forms of government issued identification documentation as may be specified by gazette notice by the Cabinet Secretary; http://www.kenyalaw.org - Page 2/174