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When Kenya almost had two national Identity cards

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KANU executive officer Mwai Kibaki, KANU VP Oginga Odinga and the new Kenya Party leader Michael Blundell at Parliament Buildings, March 8, 1961. [File, Standard]

If all goes according to plan, Kenyans will have a new form of identification before end of the year. The Universal Personal Identification, the new ID, will join a long list of identification documents.

In 1957, when Kenya proposed to introduce a universal form of identification, there was a revolt. All the Europeans in the colony rejected the idea of having their fingerprints taken.

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