The government plans to double the number of passports issued this year to at least one million from the 533,000 produced last year.
This target, as revealed by Immigration and Citizen Services Principal Secretary Julius Bitok, is boosted by the arrival of two new printing machines at Nyayo House which are expected to churn out about 600 passports per hour.
The PS, who spoke on Friday in Mombasa during the annual planning meeting of senior managers for agencies and directorates under the State Department, said the new machines are also expected to cut the waiting time for passports to under 14 days.
“We will be commissioning the new printers next week. We are determined to render delays in the issuance of passports a thing of the past as we have secured the necessary resources to procure sufficient booklets and other recurrent expenses,” he said.
