Gov’t Announces Date for Mandatory Biometric Registration of All Civil Servants; Deadline
Gov’t Announces Date for Mandatory Biometric Registration of All Civil Servants: Beginning May, the registration would be done together with the Ministry of Health as part of the shift to the new digital health system.
Subsequently, all Kenyans seeking to get onboarded to the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) must undergo biometric registration
CS Kuria stated,”I intend to do biometrics re-registration of all public workers starting from next month. As part of digital health we have to take the biometrics of everybody so that they can access social health which is a good thing,”
The public service CS also underscored that this new digital strategy would help the government identify and expose ghost workers.
CS Kuria stated,”We are on it and I was hoping that people who are more religious than me will exercise the ghost but since they have not, let me use technology.”
The biometric exercise is projected to register all employees who are estimated to exceed 900,000.
CS Kuria stated, “This country is full of ghosts. We are paying ghost civil servants and ghost teachers. We are spending capital on ghost students. We are sending cash transfers to ghost elderly citizens,”
“As we accelerate our prayers to exorcise ghosts, the Ministry of Public Service will embark on biometric registration of all the 900,000 of us who are paid by the taxpayers including counties,” he added.