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Fees for government services demand public participation

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Passport applicant is taken a photo at the Immigration Department at Nyayo House, Nairobi on August 31, 2023. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Recently a large number of fees were increased for government services like passports, visas, land, and agricultural matters. Then immediately, many of them were revoked.

One suspects that the revocation arose from threats by other governments to reciprocate by imposing the same amounts on Kenyan applicants to their embassies. This would punish Kenyan students the most.

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