Kenyan Immigration Department on the Spot for Blocking Twitter User who Questioned Condition for Passport Applicants

The dumbest requirement of all is 'a copy of recommender Id"

I thought we gad the freedom of speech? Challenge them and they get to you.guilty consciousness bites them!

Incomprehensible! I asked the same questions coz somebody who is renewing a passport shouldn't have to re-submit all the nonsense they are demanding. It's RENEWAL not a new app! Kenya's official also fail to recognize different forms of IDs. A passport is a form of ID and is acceptable all over the world.

Yafaa maombi yote ya pasipoti na vitambulisho vingine kutoka kwenye Idara hii muhimu vichuke muda usiozidi mwezi mmoja baada ya kuwatumia mambo yote wanayohitaji ili kutekeleza (process) unachotaka.

Sheer stupidity. Is Uhuru supposed to step in and do their work? Public service is full of man eaters eager to eat your money and they are hungry and angry if you don't pay up,your file disappears. This strategy is meant for one to part with money. Ati invoices and parents ID. What if you don't know your father?

Parent’ IDs? What for? How about my parents whose parents are dead wanted passports? Would they dig them out of their graves to have them renew their docs? There needs to be various ways of Identification. You only have to be creative. If I have my old passport, why should I have to ID myself further? If I can open a bank account with either an ID or a passport, why would I need my parents birth certs and IDs? Seems crazy, but Kenya is not known for innovation. We are better known for red tape and waste of time and resources. It takes over a month to renew a mere passport, but it takes seconds to approve vouchers to steal millions of cash from our coffers. Shame on us!

This is about an Overborrowing government (by all means looking for Overpaying taxpayers).

Ndugu yangu @Maxiley:

Lugha zote za kimataifa (international languages) hukopa (borrow) msamiati (vocabulary) kutoka lugha nyingine. Pia, iwapo kuna Taasisi ya Kujenga msamiati ( institute for language development), taasisi hii inaweza kubuni maneno mapya. Kwa mfano, Ukimwi (HIV -Aids) ni maneno matatu yamefanywa neno moja jipya. U (ukosefu - defiency) wa KI (kinga- body defense systems) MWI (mwilini - in the body - UKIMWI.

Unaweza kuwa na maana zaidi ya moja kwa neno, kwa mfano, "ndege" ina maana mbili; ndege (bird) na ndege (airplane).

Wakati mwingine unaweza kulibadilisha neno kwa njia unavyoliandika. "Science" - "Sayansi."

Jambo lililo kubwa ni watu wakuelewe unasema nini. Kwa hiyo, kwangu "pasipoti" ni sawa na pia "kipitampaka," kibali" kama Ndugu @Guest1 alivyosema ni sawa pia.

Unaweza kuyabadilisha matamshi ya neno ili yalingane na lugha yako. Kwa mfano, neno "samaki" linatokana na lugha ya Kiarabu "samak". Ndugu zetu Wagikuyu wamelibadilisha kwa matamshi na kulifanya "thamaki." Nao Wakamba wanatumia neno hili samaki kwa njia yao ya Kikamba na kusema "ikuyu." Waluo wanatumia neno lao kutokana na lugha yao na kusema "rech." Nao Walogooli wanatumia neno "isuze."

Kwa kumalizia hakuna njia moja tu ya kujenga msamiati mradi wananchi waanze kulitumia neno hili jipya kwa wingi.

Asante ndugu Imara Daima. How about in attempt to enrich,and authenticate kiswahili as a distinct african language,we keep the borrowed words/corrupt words,and also create our own. For example,if one were to look for passport in a Swahili dictionary,he/she would see(pasipoti,kipitampaka,kibali)?

"...How about in attempt to enrich,and authenticate kiswahili as a distinct african language,we keep the borrowed words/corrupt words,and also create our own. For example,if one were to look for passport in a Swahili dictionary,he/she would see(pasipoti,kipitampaka,kibali)?"

@maxiley: Nakubaliana nawe Ndugu. Maoni yako ni sawa kabisa. Pia unaweza kuongoze neno, "Kitambulisho cha Kimataifa."