Beginning in March of this year, the Government will establish a digital scheme allowing birth and death certificates to be issued online.

According to the Immigration department, infants will use the new registration format (UPI).

He told them this would be their identity for the rest of their lives.

"All birth and death registrations will be online starting March 1st. People will receive what we refer to as a Unique Personal Identifier (UPI), and they will be able to access them through e-citizen services, according to Prof. Bitok.


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PS Bitok indicated that the UPI would only apply to newborns and future admission to primary and high schools, in contrast to the previously announced Huduma Namba.

"We are claiming that we don't need to provide countless numbers. You'll be issued a number when you're born, and you'll use it for everything from registration in elementary school to identification in high school and college, according to Bitok.

According to the PS, the Government wants to raise the percentage of recorded births and deaths nationwide by utilizing the UPI initiative.

The percentages of births and deaths are 86% and 55%, respectively. According to the PS, registration has proved challenging, especially for pastoral and nomadic tribes.

The PS emphasized that people will find it simpler to obtain the registrations as mentioned earlier and certificates in the country, where the record for births and deaths stands at 85% and 31%, respectively, thanks to the opening of the new CSR office in Ngong.


Area MP Onesmus Ngogoyo and Environment PS Ephantus Kimotho, both present, gave residents advice to use the new office and the approaching UPI to register births, deaths, and other significant events.

The State took this move in reaction to President William Ruto's admission that his administration intended to implement a Huduma Namba-like program before the year ended.

During the celebration of International Data Privacy Day at KICC, he added, "I have also requested the Ministry of ICT to work on a digital identity so that the big Huduma thing that never was we can finally have, as Kenya, a digital identity.