{"id":42111,"date":"2025-02-05T19:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42111"},"modified":"2025-02-05T19:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:18:58","slug":"kenya-ruto-scraps-60-year-old-vetting-requirement-for-northern-kenya-id-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-ruto-scraps-60-year-old-vetting-requirement-for-northern-kenya-id-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto scraps 60-year old vetting requirement for Northern Kenya ID applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Too<\/p>\n<p>It will now be easy for residents of border counties to acquire national Identity (ID) cards after President William Ruto signed a proclamation on Wednesday scrapping a 60-year old vetting requirement.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, seen as a major political strategy by President Ruto to create a new voting bloc ahead of the 2027 General Election, comes just days after the High Court in Garissa ordered a fresh census for three counties in the Northeastern region.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/citizen.digital\/news\/ruto-scraps-60-year-old-vetting-requirement-for-northern-kenya-id-applicants-n357129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/citizen.digital\/news\/ruto-scraps-60-year-old-vetting-requirement-for-northern-kenya-id-applicants-n357129<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Emmanuel Too It will now be easy for residents of border counties to acquire national Identity (ID) cards after President William Ruto signed a proclamation on Wednesday scrapping a 60-year old vetting requirement. The decision, seen as a major political strategy by President Ruto to create a new voting bloc ahead of the 2027 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-698","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-ethnic-racial-religious","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42111","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=42111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42112,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42111\/revisions\/42112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}