{"id":193474,"date":"2025-03-13T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-all-kenyans-to-receive-id-cards-free-of-charge-presient-ruto-anounces\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:48:10","slug":"kenya-all-kenyans-to-receive-id-cards-free-of-charge-presient-ruto-anounces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-all-kenyans-to-receive-id-cards-free-of-charge-presient-ruto-anounces\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: All Kenyans to Receive ID Cards Free of Charge, Presient Ruto Anounces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has announced that all Kenyans will receive their ID Cards free of charge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Speaking during the fourth day of his Nairobi tour, the head of state warned that there should not be any form of discrimination in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">President Ruto emphasized the importance of equal access to identification documents, saying no Kenyan should be denied an ID or forced to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;Issues of discrimination in matters of identity card issuance are something we must do away&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130487.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>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has announced that all Kenyans will receive their ID Cards free of charge. Speaking during the fourth day of his Nairobi tour, the head of state warned that there should not be any form of discrimination in the process. President Ruto emphasized the importance of equal access to identification documents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193475,"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":[258,256,50855,8106,5211,6544,4688,430,9058,257,50854,8609,11238,254],"class_list":["post-193474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anounces","tag-cards","tag-charge","tag-free","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-news","tag-presient","tag-receive","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/193474","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=193474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}