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I remember I first applied my ID card when I was in secondary school, that is in my Form 4.
After applying for the ID card, my fellow students' ID card
had come before we left the school but unfortunately mine had not appeared.
When I went to the personal
registry, for the--registering us for the ID card
he told me that mine required an affidavit, and that I was to pay the
amount of 1500
to go to the court, the local court, to go and get a letter that will
allow me to get an ID card.
Since the process was cumbersome and my parents were not ready to pay the money, I had to reapply
for the ID.
So when I reapplied,
I followed the
the normal regulations that are required to apply for an ID.
But the most unfortunate one was when I was asked to produce
some documents that are not required in the ID.
For instance somebody asks me to produce a leaving certificate--which I produce, that one is required--
and then,
a photocopy of
either of my parents identity card, which I did but
in addition they asked me for a
verification card that was my
parents ID card--the original one--both for my father and my mother--
and also an affidavit, it was from the elders to accept me as a
member in the community that where I was applying for my ID card.
And worst of all it was the
asking
for my parents to give me the title deed
for our land, which we had bought somewhere and we were living and also applying for an ID, which I did it,
and after that it took me a couple of months before I got my ID.
My fellows had gotten their IDs but
I had to be going to the office every day and enquiring whether the ID was there.
The ID was there but my name was not
shortlisted among the names of the
people who had registered.
Now, it reached a point when I was almost giving up, but fortunately my father came, my father was working with
an NGO,
and since that person did not know the NGO, it was a unique one,
the vehicle is the one which made the person give me the ID card because he sort of thought
my father was working in a high-level
organization and could sue him in any way to give me my ID card
so he pulled the ID card immediately
after he saw the vehicle.