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Dear Registrar of Political Parties; we smell a fat rat

The Registrar of Political Parties, Ann Nderitu when she appeared before National Assembly Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee on March 3, 2020 at Parliament Buildings. 

Photo credit: Jeff Angote | Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • We now know that our private information isn’t safe anymore.
  • This breach of private data borders on criminal culpability.

Kenyans woke up this week to find someone had allocated them membership spaces in various political parties. When asked what she knew about the matter, the Registrar of Political Parties (RPP) couldn’t confirm or deny she had been cooking private data. She mumbled many words, falling short of biting her tongue in the process.

We now know that our private information isn’t safe anymore. We have been denying strangers our phone numbers thinking it makes us security conscious, only to discover someone has been showing them to political parties. Only God knows what other services the parties have been accessing with the numbers.