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Stop IDs vetting for all border areas

IDs vetting

Youth in Isiolo display documents used for vetting before they can be issued with IDs when they held protests on January 24, 2017. 

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

 Suspect move • President William Ruto’s outlawing of the vetting of northeastern national identity card applicants is a suspect reward for only one border area, says Jim Okwako. “The people of Busia and Bungoma counties, whose children were born in Nairobi, Mombasa and other towns, are always required to travel back to their rural homes for vetting. Why then not discontinue this for all the border areas?”

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