The Kenyan government will introduce an electronic passport in its bid to enhance security in the country.
In the past, foreigners have had an easy day coming in the country and having the opportunity to carry out violence but with the new technology, the situation will be different.
Directorate of Immigration and Registration of Persons, Gordon Kihalangwa, said the e-passport will have a chip that stores details of an individual.
Kihalagwa said tracking individual’s movement will become easy with the e-passport.
He revealed that Kenya comes second in the whole of Africa after Burundi in having implemented the electronic passport.
Kihalagwa added in a live Twitter Chat with Kenyans that by November, Kenya will be introducing the electronic passport.
Kenya is also fast tracking the development of a national database that will encompass e-passport, e-border, e-visa as well as its “third generation” identification cards, the official said.
It is to generate machine-readable documents that will allow security agents to check the identity of all people, he said.
This is one of the measures that the Kenyan Government has put in place to secure the country against both internal and external threats posed by extremists.
