Government grants Kenyan citizenship certificates to Shona community
The Government has today granted Kenyan citizenship to 1,649 members of the Shona community.
According to the state, this is part of the commitment to redress statelessness of persons and communities living in the country.
Speaking at the Windsor Hotel in Kiambu County, Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang’i announced that members of Sagaf community in Tana River will be the next to have their status regularized, a process that will be concluded before this year’s Jamhuri Day.
“The last of stateless people in the country who qualify for Kenyan citizenship will have their status regularized by December this year,” he said.
Matiang’i added that although the country was committed to redressing the plight of stateless persons and communities living in the country in line with Human Rights and International Conventions, the process of conferring Kenyan citizenship will be tempered with the larger national security interests.
