Uganda is making iris biometrics part of its new national digital identity card.  It serves not just as an added layer of “security” but also as an alternative for people who do not have fingerprints that can be matched.

During a recent parliamentary briefing, Rosemary Kisembo, the Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority of Uganda (“NIRA”), responded to questions about issues raised in the Auditor General’s 2022/2023 report.

Rosemary Kisembo is a Ugandan software engineer and corporate executive who has served as the Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority of Uganda (NIRA) since 14 May 2021. She is an ambassador for ID4Africa, a “movement” that aims to help African nations achieve the objectives of the United Nations (“UN”) Sustainable Development Goal 16.9.

ID4Africa’s foundation partners are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s Omidyar Network.  Its development partner is the World Bank, a specialised agency of the UN, and its thematic partner is Mastercard.

It is claimed that ID4Africa is not directly part of Identification for Development (“ID4D”) and is a regional movement that focuses on digital identity development in Africa.  However, ID4Africa aligns with the global ID4D agenda and its goals and has common orchestrators.

ID4D is a World Bank initiative which focuses on promoting digital identification systems, globally. You can see how far this nefarious plan has progressed in various countries HERE.  In a report released in 2018 by the World Bank titled ‘ID4D Country Diagnostic: Uganda’ the World Bank stated: “The work of ID4D is made possible with support from World Bank Group, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Omidyar Network, and the Australian Government.”

A more recent report – the ‘World Bank’s Annual Report for 2023’ published in March this year – showcased the significant progress made by ID4D and its ugly sister the Digitalising Government to Person Payments (“G2Px”) initiative and named the collaborators.

ID4D and G2Px’s success would not be possible without the close collaboration and strong support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; French Treasury; Norwegian Agency for Development (Norad); United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and the Omidyar Network. It is also a result of partnerships with academia, the private sector, and civil society.

World Bank. Putting People at the Centre of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI): Annual Report 2023 (English). Washington, D.C.: World Bank Group.
http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099647503042425828/IDU1a9d1a6be130dc148e6193181cf9d26959fb9

Further reading:

• Bill Gates and the UN impose their digital IDs on Sierra Leoneans
• Nigeria’s digital prison has been built and the gates are closing

Kisembo’s ambassadorship of ID4Africa, and by extension the Bill Gates-World Bank ID4D initiative, indicates why she was chosen to head NIRA and what is lurking behind the agenda.  Bearing this in mind, let’s return to the recent Ugandan parliamentary briefing.

According to the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (“UBC”), Kisembo stated that there are currently 1 million people in NIRA’s register whose fingerprints did not satisfy the requirements. However, the authority also uses facial recognition to capture biometric data. So, NIRA will start incorporating iris scans in capturing biometric data for people registering to acquire national identities (“IDs”).

NIRA had announced its intention to add iris biometrics to the national ID card, produced in partnership with Veridos, early this year.

According to Kisembo, face and iris biometrics will be collected from persons who have lost their vital fingerprint features either due to ageing, injury, permanent disabilities, or other physical conditions that make the capture of one’s fingerprints difficult or impossible. This was part of her response to a question on why verification machines have been unable to recognise some people’s fingerprints. She mentioned that about one million fingerprint records in the registry are no longer recognisable.

As well as government subsidies, NIRA collects revenue through various means to support its operations and services:

• Registration fees from National Identification Number (“NIN”) registration, National Identity Card registration and Replacement of lost or damaged identity cards.
• Fees for services such as verification of identity documents and Issuance of duplicate identity cards.
• Other fees such as from the sale of identity cards to non-citizens and fees for the provision of identity verification services to government agencies and private organisations.

They are making people pay for the system that will enslave them.

Showing no signs of shame, during the parliamentary briefing, lawmakers sought an explanation on why just about half of the 15 billion Ugandan shillings (£3.2 million) expected as non-tax revenue from NIRA in the 2022/2023 fiscal year was collected.

Kisembo said this is due to delays in starting the mass registration and renewal process for the national ID from which UGX7.9 billion (£1.7 million) was projected to be raised.

NIRA put off a plan to commence mass enrolment for the national ID in June, and it is now not clear when exactly the exercise will begin.

Kisembo also took the opportunity to remind lawmakers that NIRA remains headquartered at a facility owned by the Ministry of Defence. The agency has requested offices of its own for the last four years, but the request has been “an unfunded priority” each year, she said, according to New Vision.

The above is adapted from the article ‘NIRA explains adding iris biometrics to Uganda ID’ published by Biometric Update.  You can read the original article HERE.

Featured images taken from Uganda Set to Deploy DNA Recognition ‘Smart Digital’ Biometric ID, Vision Times, 12 August 2022 (left) and Iris biometrics for food distribution, IriTech, 14 March 2022 (right).

Source:  https://expose-news.com/2024/07/09/uganda-is-making-iris-biometrics-part-of-its-national-digital-id/

Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/YBM3rvf5ydDM/

Gab: https://gab.com/hopegirl

Telegram: https://t.me/Hopegirl587

EMF Protection Products: www.ftwproject.com

QEG Clean Energy Academy: www.cleanenergyacademy.com

Forbidden Tech Book: www.forbiddentech.website

The post Uganda is making iris biometrics part of its new national digital ID appeared first on HopeGirl Blog.

The announcement that RT’s UK bank accounts will be frozen is part of a coordinated EU policy aimed against Russian-linked organizations, John Laughland, Director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation in Paris, told RT.

Laughland noted that the British government took over the Royal Bank of Scotland Group in 2008, at the time of the financial crisis, and still owns approximately 75 percent of its shares. He believes Monday’s disturbing announcement to be “politically inspired.”

“My suspicion is that it’s part of a coordinated and Europe-wide policy of harassment against organizations of that are associated with Russia,” Laughland told RT from Paris. “We must understand this policy of harassment and hostility within the context of the decision taken about six months ago at a European Union summit, at which it was decided on the EU-level to combat ‘Russian propaganda and disinformation,'” as it’s being called.

The EU has even established a special unit specifically designed to combat so-called “Russian disinformation and, particularly RT, which more than any other news outlet has irritated people in the West because it has a very muscular editorial policy,” he explained.

Laughland reiterated the “real political motives” behind this latest move, mentioning  Boris Johnson, the new [UK] Foreign Secretary, who told a recent Tory Party conference that, although Britain was leaving the EU, it “wouldn’t abandon being in the forefront of sanctions against Russia.”

Laughland said Johnson implied that “Britain would increase its call for sanctions against Russia while in the process of leaving the EU.”

Meanwhile, George Galloway, British politician and host of RT’s ‘Sputnik,’ said the announcement by the Bank of Scotland “is shocking but not surprising.”

“It comes at a time when it has been obvious in parliament and in the deep state that there is a state of anxiety about the growing influence and popularity of RT in the country”, he said.

According to Galloway, part of the explanation comes from the fact that the BBC is losing influence and credibility.

The announcement to freeze RT’s accounts “coincides with a simultaneous fall in credibility of the British state broadcaster, the BBC (…), he said.

“Fewer and fewer people are watching [the BBC] and less and less (…) are paying very much attention to what it says. It is just crude British state propaganda.

“They have been nervous about RT for some time,” he added.

Galloway expressed no doubt as to who was behind the decision.

“This bank is owned by the British government. This is a decision taken by the British government. It flows from the discussions of the last few weeks about intensifying sanctions against Russia and Syria.”

But the charismatic British politician was optimistic that not much would come of this latest move against RT.

“The good news is, this is the 16th year of the 21st century, and no one – and certainly not Boris Johnson – can stop the British people getting access to RT, and they will in increasing numbers.”

The British establishment does not “particularly like differences in opinion,” David Coburn, a member of the European Parliament from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), told RT, commenting on NatWest Bank’s decision to close RT’s accounts, which he called “ridiculous.”

The politician stressed that RT “adds” to the “diversity in the media” and “gives a different perspective,” adding that it would be wrong to stop allowing people to express different points of view. He also said that, after leaving the EU, the UK should build relationships with Russia, particularly in terms of business.

“All RT is doing is asking… questions. We want to hear other people’s points of view. And it is wrong to stop that. One has to ask questions, what is the meaning of this?”Coburn told RT.

Meanwhile, John Pilger, an author and documentary filmmaker, told RT that political interference is “the only explanation” of NatWest’s decision. The bank is being “used and really abused by the British government, acting on behalf of Washington,” Pilger told RT.

He added that this move is also a “signal,” indicating that the British establishment “will not tolerate any dissent.” He also dismissed accusations concerning RT’s affiliation with the Russian government. “If RT is Kremlin-backed, then how do you describe the BBC?” the author said, adding that the BBC was condemned in 2003 “for presenting Blair government news.”

He also said that RT “is presenting an alternative view, and you are meant to have an alternative view in free societies.”

“The kind of censorship we have in the west now becomes [almost] equal to” that of the Soviet Union in times of the Cold War, Pilger told RT, adding that it is “intolerable.”

He also complained that modern British media became “unwatchable” and the UK’s “media society is dominated by [Rupert] Murdoch’s [News Corporation] view and the BBC-[promoted] state view,” adding that there are only few exceptions and almost “no real investigative journalism.”

“It is a disgrace for a country with fine and rich tradition of free journalism,” Pilger said, calling on all “real journalists” to “wake up” and “speak now.”

For videos please use source link below.

(Source:  rt.com; October 17, 2016; http://tinyurl.com/h9lkpzd)

The post UK move on RT ‘part of EU policy of harassment against Russia-linked organizations’ appeared first on HopeGirl Blog.