It is hope for North Eastern residents without national identity cards (IDs) after government vowed to expedite registration and issuance of the document to all unregistered youths.
Taking to his social media platform just after registering for his Huduma Namba, Aden Duale stated that parliament had passed all necessary laws to enable all Kenyans to register in the ongoing countrywide registration exercise.
Specifically, Duale revealed that the interior ministry had been tasked to hasten the registration of youths from Pastoralist communities whose named were captured in the UNHCR refugee database.
"The legislature has passed all the necessary laws to effect the Huduma process and urged the Ministry of Interior to fastrack the issuance of IDs to thousands of youths and elderly from Pastoralist communities and expedite the issuance of ID cards for the Kenyan youths whose finger prints were found in UNHCR refugee database for them to equally for the Huduma number," Duale said.
The latest development now put the youths from Garissa, Mandera and Wajir counties at a better position to have the vital document, a thing that will expose them better opportunities for self progression.