Residents of Kisii County have been told to collect IDs from the Registrar of Persons offices in the county.
Registration clerks in the county told Hivisasa.com that some residents who applied for the national identification documents last year had not collected them even as some were received six months ago.
The clerks said some IDs had stayed spent close to five years uncollected.
According to Dan Nyakundi, currently there are more than 1,000 identification cards that have not been collected for a period of over six months.
He, however, noted that another over 500 identity cards have been there for a period of less than six months despite the applicants having been told when they should have collected them.
Nyakundi attributed these figures mostly to multiple applications whereby an individual applied for an identity card in two different places in process ending up not collecting them from one of the locations.
He explained that another probable reason for the same was when a person misplaced their identity card, reapplied for another then found their original one thus abandoning the quest to pursue a new card.
The officer stated that it takes about 2 months for an ID card to be processed after which the applicant should pick it up from the registration offices.
He, however, noted that this move was counter-productive saying that more cards went uncollected at the chiefs’ offices than at the registration offices therefore forcing them to recall all those cards back to their offices.