Parents Decry Delays In Identity Cards Issuance

Parents to students enrolled in various training institutes and colleges in the Country have decried delays in the issuance of national identity cards (IDs) which they claim is jeopardizing access to various critical processes.Jacinter Akinyi, a parent, claims that her sister who is a total orphan applied for an ID in early February to facilitate her secure tuition fees from the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), to no avail.Samson Omondi disclosed that he applied for his ID in February and that his daily trips to collect his ID at the Huduma Center have remained fruitless.'And it is my humble urgent plea that our children be assisted to get the ID's which will facilitate them to get the HELB funding because we don't have the resources to pay for their education', said Omondi.The stranded applicants have now appealed to those in charge of processing the ID's to intervene and resolve the processing stalemate.'My plea is that those in the department responsible for issuance of ID's sholud intervene and speedily resolve the stalemate because we urgently need the IDs to process HELB funding,' he pleaded.Source: Kenya News Agency