CS Kindiki's Warning To Kenyans Over Uncollected Passports

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has fired a warning to Kenyans who are yet to collect their passports from immigration offices.

Speaking in Embu on Tuesday, September 12, Kindiki noted that there are approximately six thousand uncollected passports in the Embu immigration office alone and close to thirty thousand in the Nairobi office.

“We have discovered after we improved on our service delivery that we have quite a number of uncollected passports including in this office (Embu). This office alone is holding approximately six thousand uncollected passports, Nairobi is holding somewhere between twenty and thirty thousand uncollected passports and the other regional offices are also having some uncollected passports,” said Kindiki. 

The interior CS disclosed that the government is going to make it mandatory for all those who applied for passports and they have been printed to come collect them.

“We will even publish those passport numbers and those public holders with a notice that they must come and collect them, if they don’t we will announce the measures we will take,” Kindiki added.

“You cant put us under pressure as immigration officers to give you your passport then when it is printed you don’t come for it, some of them we have already tried sending them messages, calling them to come and pick their passports and they are not in a hurry.”

CS Kindiki further said the government will apply the law in disposing passports that will not be collected by their owners.

“We will force everyone to come and pick their passport within a certain period of time if they don’t pick we will apply the law in terms of making sure we find a way of disposing them and closing that chapter,” he stated.