{"id":42921,"date":"2026-02-26T11:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42921"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:18:33","slug":"outrage-as-leaked-govt-document-reveals-foreigners-issued-with-kenyan-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/outrage-as-leaked-govt-document-reveals-foreigners-issued-with-kenyan-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as leaked Gov&#8217;t document reveals foreigners issued with Kenyan passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Brenda Wanga<\/p>\n<p>A leaked internal document from the Directorate of Immigration Services reveals a shocking trend by President William Ruto\u2019s administration to dish out Kenyan passports to foreign individuals for what can only be perceived as private and personal purposes.<\/p>\n<p>From a high-profile Zimbabwean entrepreneur to high-ranking figures from Sudan\u2019s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the list of questionable issuance of Kenyan passports is growing.<\/p>\n<p>Political activist and presidential aspirant Boniface Mwangi blew the whistle, posting on social media an alleged leaked document listing foreigners who are now Kenyan passport holders.<\/p>\n<p>The list, allegedly sourced from the Immigration department, shows a surge in both new and renewal passport applications for individuals whose ties to Kenya are, at best, unclear and, at worst, a potential national security threat.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.digital\/article\/outrage-as-leaked-govt-document-reveals-foreigners-issued-with-kenyan-passports-n378173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.citizen.digital\/article\/outrage-as-leaked-govt-document-reveals-foreigners-issued-with-kenyan-passports-n378173<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brenda Wanga A leaked internal document from the Directorate of Immigration Services reveals a shocking trend by President William Ruto\u2019s administration to dish out Kenyan passports to foreign individuals for what can only be perceived as private and personal purposes. From a high-profile Zimbabwean entrepreneur to high-ranking figures from Sudan\u2019s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), [&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-42921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-699","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42921","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=42921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42922,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42921\/revisions\/42922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}