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A photo illustration taken on March 22, 2018 shows social media apps on a phone. A Kenyan MP has sponsored a Bill in Parliament to have WhatsApp group administrators obtain licences from the Communications Authority of Kenya to run social media groups. PHOTO | AFP

Many Kenyans queued for hours a few months ago for the Huduma Number that never was.

And now a case is underway in court over that non-existent number and how Ksh6 billion ($60 million) was lost. There was always something off about a centralised source of citizen data.