Dear Listers, It is roughly two weeks to the launch of Maisha Namba. As they say, the train has left the station, or so it seems. But wait a minute, the proposed identification systems' weakest link appears to be located at where it ought to matter most - the people, the very sovereign, I must add. That the government has ambushed ordinary Kenyans with a launch date suggests that it has not learned its lessons from *Nubian Human Rights case*, *Katiba Institute cases* and the *Free Kenya Initiative case*. If it did make attempts to learn any lessons then I am certain it got it upside down. I will not, therefore, be surprised if the implementation faces serious legal hurdles and eventually suffers a fate similar to that of its infamous predecessor. What plays out shows how the citizens' interests may be so easily threatened and or slaughtered at the altar of competing economic and political interests conveniently couched in western constructs of so-called development. More so since at such times, as is the case with Maisha Namba, the State that owes the duty to protect is complicit, decides to look the other way or 'feigns evasive lunacy' in clearest of cases. Regards, NO (DPIA legal specialist)