Edge919: Feel free to prove this.
Me: Gladly. See Cap 149, Section 26 of Kenyan Law. I quote the relevant passage below:
Cap 149: Births and Deaths Registration
Section 26: Inspection of Registers and Provisions of Copies and Certificates
(1) Any register, return or index in the custody of the Principal Registrar subject to the rules, shall be open to inspection on payment of the prescribed fee.
(2) The Principal Registrar shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, furnish a certified copy of any entry in any register or in any return in his custody.
(3) The Principal Registrar shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, furnish a certificate in the prescribed form of the birth of any person compiled in the prescribed manner from the records and registers in his custody.
(4) A certified copy of any entry in any register or return sealed or stamped with the seal of the Principal Registrar shall be received as evidence of the dates and facts therein contained without any or other proof of such entry.
If you don't believe I have faithfully cut and paste the appropriate text, you can look it up for yourself here:
http://www.kenyalaw.org/kenyalaw/klr_home/
Click on the "Cap Title" tab, and type in 149. Then scroll down to section 26.
Therefore, if Obama happens to have a birth certificate on file in Kenya, anyone will to pay a nominal fee has access to it.
Now why is it that no one has come up with one?
Your citations keep saying that the inspection of registers is ‘subject to the rules.’ I believe Orly tried to get one of the courts to send an official letter to Kenya Principal Registrar to verify one of the Kenyan BCs. Seems like she would have done this herself if it was open to the public. Or on the converse, why hasn’t any Obot faither cited a note from the Principal Registrar to confirm that Obama does NOT have a certificate on file there?? It swings both ways, if they’re truly open to the public.