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Accessing public documents in Kenya is your right

Maintenance of public records is a State duty under various laws and access to these records by a citizen an unfettered right.

Government and its departments and other institutions and quasi-government undertakings are obligated to maintain true records of public documents and to avail extracts to every Kenyan when he so requests without giving any reason as to why the document is required.

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