On Thursday, 2nd April, 2019, a blog reported that Huduma Namba System had been hacked and some records deleted.
The blog claimed that a University of Nairobi IT student Enock Ovitah alias Jakuo had been arrested for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
It also went to tate that Enock had turned off automatic backing from IDEMIA servers.
IDEMIA is the company that collects the data on behalf of GoK.
Most Kenyans who hate this government of Kenya (GoK) forced registration, immediately celebrated.
However, they didn’t know that it was fake news.
‘Kindly treat fake news circulating claiming Huduma Namba has been hacked with the contempt they deserve’, a tweet from the Interior Ministry handle said.
The Interior Ministry post also boasted that over 23.5 million people have already registered.
This devided a section of netizens.
Some called out the GoK for outright lies.
Find below the tweet and some replies.
Interior Ministry Tweet
Kindly treat fake news circulating claiming #HudumaNamba has been hacked with the contempt they deserve.
The exercise is ongoing with 23.5 million people already registered.
Report any misleading information you spot. pic.twitter.com/uB0vRjrrzW
— Ministry of Interior | Kenya (@InteriorKE) May 4, 2019
The replies
https://twitter.com/WeThePeopleKE1/status/1124683552824672256?s=19
https://twitter.com/Jasonwinner3/status/1124761807346896897?s=19
Less than 23 days how did u managed to register 23 million people?
— The Northern Herder (@Abdirahman_all) May 4, 2019
23.5 million is also FAKE NEWS
— U-GENE (@abutojnr) May 4, 2019
Some people are still being charged
Why are we being charged 50kshs for the form ?
— Sonni (@SonniTeresia) May 5, 2019
This one gave in to fate
I've got nothing to worry about if a hacker got access to my info…na hii umaskini ataniibia nn?
— Tom the Doubter (@mullerthomase1) May 5, 2019
LOL, Do it like the IEBC figures
But mzidi tu kutudanganya, next time quote the value to 45M so that we won't trouble ourselves taking it.
— U-GENE (@abutojnr) May 4, 2019
