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State to clear ID cards backlog in 30 days

Immigration Principal Secretary Julius Bitok. [File, Standard]

Printing of about 400,000 new generation national identity cards, commonly known as Maisha cards, will be cleared within 30 days.

Immigration Principal Secretary Julius Bitok said the backlog was occasioned by a court case that stopped production in November last year and breakdown of the printing machine.

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