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The government has procured 600 digital live capture technology devices that allow new national identity cards to be issued in just 10 days, Principal Secretary for the State Department for Immigration and Citizen Services Belio Kipsang has said.
The PS said the government has also aggressively scaled its digitisation drive, with over 24,000 services to the public now onboarded onto the e-Citizen platform, enabling Kenyans to access vital services effectively.
Speaking in Kakamega during a sensitization engagement for National Government Administration and National Bureau Registration and Immigration officers’ forum held at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kipsang said Kenyans in Nairobi can receive their national identity cards in one day, while processing times for new applications in other regions and rural counties have been reduced to only 10 days
“This has been made possible by the deployment of live-capture biometric equipment that instantly transmits data to the central processing center in Nairobi, and after verification of the details, the identity cards are printed,” he added.
