The government is set to roll out a mass National Identity (IDs) registration drive, targeting over one million Kenyans who have attained the mandatory age, in less than a fortnight.
Addressing Journalists after his working tour of the National Registration Bureau offices at NSSF Building, Interior and National Administration Cabinet Secretary (CS) Kipchumba Murkomen affirmed the Kenya Kwanza administration’s commitment to ensure no Kenyan is left behind in access to service delivery.
The CS also noted that over 400,000 National Identification Cards (IDs) lie uncollected, with duplicates accounting for over 270,000.
The CS said policy interventions by the ministry to ensure citizens have better access to identification services have yielded results with the increase in applications for the IDs, especially from marginalised communities.
“We are working very hard to ensure Kenyans who are not registered, and those doing replacements are going to happen in record time. Starting from the other week, we are going to roll out the mobile registration program in pastoralists areas,” disclosed the CS.
Murkomen said the exercise will be targeting the Northern, Eastern and some parts of the Coast regions, to ensure that those who have been left out for many years are now going to get their IDs.