[kictanet] Fraudulently enlisted as a member of a political party

Mon Mar 6 17:05:54 EAT 2017

This is a failure at the Govt IT Services Secretariat. That is the ICTA,
right?

Lack of competence to formulate policies and implement, etc.

On 6 March 2017 at 17:02, Dorcas Muthoni via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Looks like they have problems auditing data submitted by the political
> parties or keeping the data secure. Could be both.
>
> On Mar 6, 2017 11:32 AM, "Mwendwa Kivuva" <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What is more worrying is the amount of raw data that platform spews to
>> the public.
>>
>> Just search a random 8 character ID number, and you get Full names, ID
>> numbers, date of birth etc. You can actually do a query from 00000000
>> to 44444444 and harvest all names, ID numbers, and Dates of birth, and
>> gender of all Kenyans who belong to political parties.
>>
>>
>> ______________________
>> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>> twitter.com/lordmwesh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5 March 2017 at 23:55, Dorcas Muthoni via kictanet
>> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> > These are questions the registrar of political parties should be
>> answering.
>> >
>> > Don't forget parties are business opportunities.  You do not want to be
>> one
>> > of their illegal assets "members" fraudulently or unknowingly.
>> >
>> > On Mar 5, 2017 10:16 PM, "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> @Dorcas, what is the offence to be investigated?
>> >>
>> >> 1. Assuming Fraudulent listing, is it the ORPP to blame or the
>> political
>> >> parties?
>> >> 2. Assuming Political parties, then the question is, do they give ORPP
>> the
>> >> register of their members in a soft copy, based on a template (or API)
>> which
>> >> is then imported into the ORPP system?
>> >> 3. If (2) is true, then does the system at ORPP have a mechanism for
>> data
>> >> verification for integrity purposes?
>> >> 4. What if it doesn't have? Is ORPP to blame? Is there a law that says
>> a
>> >> Kenyan can only be a member of one (1) political party?
>> >> 5. What happens when a political party merges with another (like
>> >> TNA+URP+etc)? How is the data from the dissolved parties then handled?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The 1 million dollar question though is: Who has suddenly come up with
>> >> this facility to check ones status?
>> >>
>> >> This is symptomatic of the mess we have with the IEBC voters register.
>> >>
>> >> Whereas the register is supposed to be public, it's being treated as
>> some
>> >> security document - to hide all the mess within.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 5 March 2017 at 16:05, Dorcas Muthoni via kictanet
>> >> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Both cases can be investigated.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mar 5, 2017 1:37 PM, "Tony Likhanga via kictanet"
>> >>> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks, Dorcas.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> What does the successful result from querying dubious ID/Passport
>> number
>> >>>> like 001 portend in regards to the integrity of this data?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Tony.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On 5 Mar 2017 13:20, "Dorcas Muthoni via kictanet"
>> >>>> <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi listers,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Please use this link to see if you are unknowingly and fraudulently
>> >>>> registered as a member of a political party.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> http://ppmstatus.orpp.or.ke/ppregstatus/public.aspx
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I just found out I was enlisted to the Amani Congress Party.
>> Something
>> >>>> ought to be done to punish such political parties.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
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-- 
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
"Oh, the cruft."
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