State releases new registration guidelines for ID application

National Registration Bureau workers sort out second and third-generation Maisha identity cards at Huduma centre of Kakamega on December 21, 2023. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Kenyans living in border, cosmopolitan, and settlement counties will no longer undergo vetting for the issuance of National Identification Cards.

Instead, chiefs and assistant chiefs shall be held responsible for any illegal registration of persons as the government dissolves vetting and identification committees.