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Passport issuance rose 85pc on rush to meet deadlines

The number of Kenyans who acquired passports rose by 85.4 percent last year as the State moved to open up more issuance centres locally and abroad. FILE PHOTO | NMG

By  Bonface Otieno

Nation Media Group

Business Reporter

The number of Kenyans who acquired passports rose by 85.4 percent last year as the State moved to open up more issuance centres locally and abroad.

Data published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that the number of travel documents issued rose to 446,954 last year from 241,095 in 2018.

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