The government says the Directorate of Immigration has cleared an additional 15,400 passport applications and relayed passports to regional centers for distribution in an ongoing Rapid Results Initiative (RRI).
Speaking on Monday, Interior Cabinet Secretary(CS) Kithure Kindiki says the documents were available for collection beginning Monday, October 2.
Out of the 15,400 newly dispatched passports, the Nairobi passport office holds 7,501 passports, Mombasa (1,166), Kisumu (1,602) and Nakuru (1,000).
In Eldoret, 1,543 passports are ready for collection, while in Kisii 1,500 copies have been dispatched.
A total of 1,088 passports are ready for collection in Embu.
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The RRI campaign was launched on September 19 to clear a soaring passport backlogs amid a crisis at the Immigration Department blamed on a broken printer and corruption.
“The Government will continue to align our procedures and delivery environment to ensure we bring permanent efficiency in the immigration department and sustain the war against corruption to win back public confidence,” Kindiki said.
At the time, Kindiki listed 87,574 unclaimed passports and requested that their owners pick them up right away.
He made plans to publish the names of those who have not picked up their passports every Wednesday.
With 36,170 pending passports, Nairobi's Nyayo House office had the most; Embu had 10,409 copies.
Kisii and Mombasa only had 7,971 and 5,424 copies, while Eldoret, Kisumu, and Nakuru each had 9,938, 9.515, and 8,023, respectively.
