{"id":179415,"date":"2024-08-28T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T06:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyans-urged-to-collect-over-400000-id-cards-as-backlog-cleared\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T06:56:16","slug":"kenyans-urged-to-collect-over-400000-id-cards-as-backlog-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyans-urged-to-collect-over-400000-id-cards-as-backlog-cleared\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans Urged to Collect Over 400,000 ID Cards As Backlog Cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The National Registration Bureau (NRB) has called on Kenyans to collect over 400,000 uncollected National Identity cards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">As of now, only 1,358 applications are pending in the routine processing queue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">PS Bitok explained that the NRB resumed printing new and duplicate National ID&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408280075.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":179416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,30127,8106,10168,19170,430,9058,257,254,6206],"class_list":["post-179415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backlog","tag-cards","tag-cleared","tag-collect","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}