{"id":39642,"date":"2023-11-12T19:11:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T19:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=39642"},"modified":"2023-11-19T19:13:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T19:13:58","slug":"reprieve-for-kenyans-as-court-halts-new-passports-id-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/reprieve-for-kenyans-as-court-halts-new-passports-id-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprieve for Kenyans as court halts new passports, ID charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Kamau Muthoni<\/p>\n<p class=\"card-text\">The High Court in Nairobi has frozen a gazette notice introducing new charges for all identification documents issued by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Lawrence Mugambi\u2019s orders follow a case by Nakuru-based surgeon Gikenyi Magayi challenging the new charges with the matter set to be mentioned on November 29.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Magayi argued the new fees on national identification cards, passports and births, marriage, and death certificates are unreasonable.<\/p>\n<p>Read further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/national\/article\/2001485045\/reprieve-for-kenyans-as-court-halts-new-passports-id-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/national\/article\/2001485045\/reprieve-for-kenyans-as-court-halts-new-passports-id-charges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Kamau Muthoni The High Court in Nairobi has frozen a gazette notice introducing new charges for all identification documents issued by the government. Justice Lawrence Mugambi\u2019s orders follow a case by Nakuru-based surgeon Gikenyi Magayi challenging the new charges with the matter set to be mentioned on November 29. Dr Magayi argued the new [&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-39642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-birth-registration","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39642","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=39642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39646,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39642\/revisions\/39646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}