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I still use my KANU card as ID, woman speaks of frustrations

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Old KANU membership card preserved at Wilson Kangogo's museum at Kipkenda village, Kapchemutwa ward in Elgeyo Marakwet County. [File ,Standard]

Every time Sofia Hassan Koriyo travels outside Garissa County and is asked to produce her identity card, the granny flashes out her old laminated Kanu membership card since she does not have a national identity card.

The 69-year-old recounted to The Standard her unsuccessful attempts to acquire an ID. The woman is almost giving up on ever getting the important document after losing it decades back.

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