Kenyans Urged to Collect Over 400,000 ID Cards As Backlog Cleared

The National Registration Bureau (NRB) has called on Kenyans to collect over 400,000 uncollected National Identity cards.

Immigration and Citizen Services Principal Secretary Julius Bitok announced that the department cleared a backlog by printing 505,197 cards in the last two weeks. Of these, 162,856 are new, while 344,341 are duplicates.

As of now, only 1,358 applications are pending in the routine processing queue.

PS Bitok explained that the NRB resumed printing new and duplicate National ID…