What would it take to have all persons in Kenya registered and given an id number same as the one we have then extend the use of this number to identify you for life. When you go to school your school records have this number, when you get a job that number is used, when you buy property same number is used, if you go to the bank same number, if you rent a house, the landlord has to submit - upload it some place. If you die the number is deactivated. This would apply to all citizens, you get this number at birth. What would be the purpose? 1. It would be very easy it keep tabs of the actual number of the citizens and make projections. 2. The Electoral commission would have updated voters roll 3. Would aid in planning, how many people live in a certain area, qualifications of the citizens broadly or more in-depth. 4 Could be used by institutions like HELB , once the employer enters your number into there pay role a mandatory % of income will be deducted based on outstanding balance to them. Think if more people got to paying there loans early more would be available for even more students. Maybe it could be pushed to technical schools or even high school maybe How would it be managed and what would be required? Saw a piece on CitizenTV about the abandoned children and just thought if we had a better system maybe parents who dump there kids could be tracked - actually one would not even do it as you *know* the state knows where you work and stay. Just a thought -- * If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. - Emerson M. Pugh *