A bulk of Kenyan IDs [Photo/Kenya News Agency]
A 26 year old women has filed a petition in court after the government refused to grant her Kenyan citizenship.
According to the petitioner, Virdi Gurveen , she was born in Kenya but has not been granted a national ID after eight years of trying.
As a result she has sued the Principal Registrar of Persons, the Ministry of Immigration and the Attorney General.
She clais the Principal Registrar of Persons has unjustly denied her the right to register and issue her with a valid national ID.
The Constitution says a person is a citizen by birth if on the day of the person's birth whether or not the person is born in Kenya, either the mother or father of the person is a citizen.
Gurven added that her father was British but her mother was born in Kenya.
She said that she applied for an ID back in 2009 complete with all the necessary documents and was issued a waiting card.
"The reason as per the registering officer asking for the grandfather's documents was that during the time Gurveen was born, none of her parents was registered as a Kenyan," the petition says.
The British High Commission wrote a letter to the registering officer, informing them that Gurveen was born in an independent Kenya to a Kenyan mother, hence qualifies for citizenship.