Agony of youths who can't get IDs

A group of youths display their disfigured fingerprints at Maili Saba quarry in Bahati, Nakuru. More than 40 youths working at the quarry have no Identification Cards. [Photo: Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Moses Maina is distraught. Though he is in his early 30s, he does not have a national Identity Card.

It’s not that Maina does not want to register as a Kenyan citizen. No. He is among a group of youths who work at a quarry in Bahati, Nakuru County, whose fingerprints have been disfigured as a result of the manual work.