It is now evident that the state department of immigration is exercising double standards, especially when it comes to registration of persons and issuance of identification documents.
It is unfair and mockery to the youths of North Eastern Kenya to hear of citizens being reminded to pick their documents that have remained uncollected for months and others for years.
To them, the problems encountered while applying the documents is incomparable to anything. In countless occasions, Garissa youths have been staging massive demonstrations along the streets to remind the government that they are Kenyan citizens who need some sense of identity.
Just to mention, Kisumu County Commissioner Maalim Mohammed announced to the lakeside residents on Wednesday that over eleven thousand national identifications remain uncollected at the regional registration centers.
In Garissa, the registration clerks are the ones frustrating the Somali youths by issuing unnecessary demands that complicate the process.
Recently, Garissa Township MP Aden Duale called on the registration clerks to hasten the process but no action has since been taken. If this is not open discrimination, then someone should give it a better name.