Kenya increases fees for new ID cards, biometric passports, birth, death certificates

Kenyans will soon have to cough out more money than before to obtain some important identity credentials such the new national ID card, biometric passports as well as civil status registration papers like birth and death certificates.

This is according to a notice issued Tuesday November 7 by Kenya’s Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, Citizen Digital reports.

Late last month, Kindiki had gazetted the legislation that would oversee the issuance of the country’s new digital ID dubbed Maisha Namba …

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