{
  "id": 18451618,
  "title": "State turns to chiefs to trace owners of 557,930 uncollected IDs ahead of 2027 polls",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/state-turns-to-chiefs-to-trace-owners-of-557-930-uncollected-ids",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-06T05:34:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Capital FM Kenya",
    "slug": "capital-fm-kenya",
    "url": "https://capitalfm.africa/state-turns-to-chiefs-to-trace-owners-of-557930-uncollected-ids-ahead-of-2027-polls/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The government has enlisted chiefs and assistant chiefs to trace owners of 557,930 uncollected national identity cards ahead of the January 2027 voter registration exercise, with nearly 400,000 cards having remained uncollected for more than a decade.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Nation Africa",
        "title": "State turns to chiefs, e-Citizen to trace owners of uncollected IDs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/state-turns-to-chiefs-e-citizen-to-trace-owners-of-uncollected-ids",
        "published": "2026-11-06T03:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}