{The Kenyan government said on Friday it will introduce electronic passport as part of the measures aimed at enhancing security in the country. } <\/p>\n
Directorate of Immigration and Registration of Persons, Gordon Kihalangwa, said the e-passport will have a chip that stores details of an individual.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Africa, only Burundi has implemented the e-passport. By November, Kenya will be introducing the E-passport,\u201d Kihalangwa said in a live Twitter Chat with Kenyans.<\/p>\n
He said tracking individual\u2019s movement will become easy with the e-passport.<\/p>\n
Kenya is also fast tracking the development of a national database that will encompass e-passport, e-border, e-visa as well as its \u201cthird generation\u201d identification cards, the official said.<\/p>\n
It is to generate machine-readable documents that will allow security agents to check the identity of all people, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs Kenya embarks on relaxing border restrictions through the East African Community integration process, Nairobi will not allow its borders to be easy targets for criminals,\u201d Kihalangwa said. <\/p>\n
Source: Xinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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