{"id":134,"date":"2015-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/cost-of-biometric-passport-causes-public-anger\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T06:53:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:53:36","slug":"cost-of-biometric-passport-causes-public-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/cost-of-biometric-passport-causes-public-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of biometric passport causes public anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost for a proposed new passport has sparked public anger in Sierra Leone after the Immigration department announced it was preparing a new, biometric passport to replace the current one with a cost of Le500, 000 (US$100).Many say the money, representing 500% increment, is too excessive.<\/p>\n<p>Since the announcement recently, criticism in the media has exploded and a civil society organization took the lead in condemning the move and calling for a reversal of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Immigration Department cited the cost involved in printing the document for the hike in price.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.starafrica.com\/news\/sleone-cost-of-biometric-passport-causes-public-anger.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost for a proposed new passport has sparked public anger in Sierra Leone after the Immigration department announced it was preparing a new, biometric passport to replace the current one with a cost of Le500, 000 (US$100).Many say the money, representing 500% increment, is too excessive. Since the announcement recently, criticism in the media [&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-134","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\/134","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=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}