Counties with highest number of uncollected ID cards

Some 476,167 national ID cards are lying uncollected in the National Registration Bureau registration offices and Huduma Centres countrywide, the government has said.

Immigration and Citizen Services PS Julius Bitok said the data is as of August 26, 2024.

In an update on the status update on issuance of National ID card (Maisha Card), Bitok said the NRB has cleared the backlog of National ID card applications and has ramped up the printing capacity to 32,000 National ID cards per day to expeditiously process new requests.

He said by July 25, some 451,228 National ID card applications (130,302 new and 320,926 duplicates) had been received at NRB and were in various stages of production.

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