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The company contracted by Worldcoin to represent it in the country is not registered in the country, Attorney General Justin Muturi (pictured) told MPs yesterday.

It emerged that the Office and Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) issued a firm known as Tools for Humanity, under which Worldcoin operated, a certificate of registration outside the legal framework.

Muturi who appeared before an Adhoc committee of the National Assembly investigating Worldcoin activities in Kenya said Tools for Humanity was not licensed as required in the Companies Act.

“Worldcoin is not registered as a company for whatever purpose in Kenya. An application for registration must be accompanied inter-alia by a company of establishment documents. The establishment documents include a registration certificate,” Muturi said.

The AG told members that Data Protection Commissioner Immaculate Kassait made glaring omissions while issuing a certificate to Tools for Humanity.

“It is to be observed that for a foreign country to operate and collect data in the country, the company is required to furnish its establishment document to the data commissioner,” said Muturi.

He further told the committee which Narok West MP Gabriel Tongoyo chairs that of eleven local companies that were working as agents of the Worldcoin Project, only one was registered.

Elsewhere, a group of boda boda riders in Ndhiwa sub-county, Homa Bay county have rolled out an education programme to support vulnerable learners.

In the programme, Canaan Boda Boda Self Help Group in South Kabuoch ward has already raised Sh350,000 to pay school fees for bright but needy students in the community.

The money has been disbursed to over sixty secondary school and college students learning in various institutions.

The caucus chairman Joseph Odhiambo said they came up with the initiative to support their disadvantaged colleagues to educate their children as a way of transforming the society.

Odhiambo said the self-help group which started in 2020 decided to change the negative perception levelled against boda boda operators by supporting each other through paying fees for members who are struggling economically.