Nairobi — Immigration and Citizen Companies Principal Secretary Julius Bitok says chiefs will now be required to take accountability for foreigners acquiring Nationwide Identification Playing cards of their areas.
He mentioned a few of those that get identification playing cards fraudulently have been terrorists or who flip in opposition to Kenyans and assault them or have been outlaws on the run from their native nations engaged in worldwide crime rings.
Bitok made the announcement as he declared that vetting committees will probably be dissolved from Wednesday.
“Now we have achieved away with the vetting course of as a result of it was discriminatory. As at from Might 1 2024 there will probably be no vetting for beginning certificates,passports and Identification playing cards,” he mentioned.
PS Bitok affirmed that the brand new insurance policies leveraged on expertise will facilitate seamless registration course of and guarantee solely eligible Kenyan nationals will probably be issued with identification paperwork notably in border,city and cosmopolitan counties.
“We’re going to use expertise to combine all our techniques together with beginning certificates registration, civil registration system,nationwide registration,and passport registration such that whenever you come for an identification card utility we simply verify the information on our System,”added Bitok.
He revealed that the vetting course of challenges has affected 20 counties throughout the nation together with these within the border areas and cosmopolitan counties of Nairobi,Mombasa and Nakuru.
“Folks on the Nation’s border counties have been complaining of delay in insurance coverage of Identification paperwork however now the brand new pointers will improve the registration of significant paperwork as authorities ensures the safety for all residents,” he said.
Bitok nonetheless warned that native directors will probably be held accountable for unlawful registration of individuals of their areas of jurisdiction.
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