Interior Cabinet Secretary Professor Kithure Kindiki has said passport applications will from September 1st take three days to be processed.
Before then, the CS said Kenyans would from May 1, have their passport applications processed within three weeks adding that the days will reduce as time goes by.
This is due to the acquisition of printing machines on Monday making the new mode of operations easy
Kindiki said that the government has addressed issues that caused delays in the processing of the passport.
He noted that the high number of pending passports which stood at 724,000 by March 11, has been effectively reduced by a huge margin where 50,000 applications have been processed and ready for delivery
The CS said he has now tasked the Directorate of Immigration to develop a passport production and collection sustainability plan within this week, to ensure that there is no backlog reoccurrence.
By Winnie Wanyonyi
