{"id":128,"date":"2015-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/immigration-chief-defends-new-passport-fee\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:53:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:53:20","slug":"immigration-chief-defends-new-passport-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/immigration-chief-defends-new-passport-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration chief defends new passport fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Immigration Department in Sierra Leone has defended the new passport price which sparked a heated debate in the country.<br \/>\nThe government through the Immigration department recently announced the introduction of a biometric passport, from the current ordinary machine readable.<\/p>\n<p>But the cost for the passport, at Le500, 000 (US$100) has been criticized as too expensive for most Sierra Leoneans.<\/p>\n<p>The past few weeks have witnessed sustained criticism of the Le 500, 000 (US$100) price tag the Immigration Department placed on it and those opposing it say it is expensive and will be out of reach for most Sierra Leoneans.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.starafrica.com\/news\/sleone-immigration-chief-defends-new-passport-fee.html\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Immigration Department in Sierra Leone has defended the new passport price which sparked a heated debate in the country. The government through the Immigration department recently announced the introduction of a biometric passport, from the current ordinary machine readable. But the cost for the passport, at Le500, 000 (US$100) has been criticized as too [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-sierra-leone","region-west-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}