{"id":137100,"date":"2026-04-09T06:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/crackdown-looms-on-lenders-using-national-ids-as-collateral-says-murkomen\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:02:51","slug":"crackdown-looms-on-lenders-using-national-ids-as-collateral-says-murkomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/crackdown-looms-on-lenders-using-national-ids-as-collateral-says-murkomen\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown looms on lenders using national IDs as collateral, says Murkomen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 9 \u2014 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has warned moneylenders and individuals holding national identity cards as collateral that they risk prosecution if they fail to return them to their rightful owners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the inauguration of Nuu Sub-County in Kitui County, Murkomen stressed that national identification cards are not legal tender and must not be used as collateral under any circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA national ID is not legal tender. I direct all those holding any person\u2019s ID in exchange for a service or good to return it to the owners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The CS said the practice\u2014common among informal lenders\u2014violates citizens\u2019 rights and undermines access to essential services that require identification documents.<\/p>\n<p>Murkomen also used the platform to criticise opposition politics, taking aim at Kalonzo Musyoka over his alignment with government critics.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the former vice president to work with President William Ruto in advancing national development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKalonzo Musyoka is my good friend and my senior in the legal profession. His only problem is that he does not know how to find his way into government,\u201d Murkomen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no need to wait until the very end to shake hands with the President. Do it now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inauguration of Nuu Sub-County, Murkomen noted, is part of the government\u2019s broader push to decentralise services and improve access to administration at the grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>He said the move aligns with recommendations from Jukwaa La Usalama forums, adding that a policy to standardise the creation of administrative units is in its final stages.<\/p>\n<p>The government, he added, will continue to operationalise already gazetted administrative units as funding becomes available, in a bid to enhance service delivery and security coordination across the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 9 \u2014 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has warned moneylenders and individuals holding national identity cards as collateral that they risk prosecution if they fail to return them to their rightful owners. Speaking during the inauguration of Nuu Sub-County in Kitui County, Murkomen stressed that national identification cards are not legal tender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}