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"Having failed to procure passports via what snowballed to become the Anglo Leasing scam, the Department of Immigration has run out of passports and might not issue any in two weeks time. The move will hit hard students travelling abroad for studies, patients seeking medical treatment, the business community and those wishing to renew their passports after the ten-year expiry period. Internally, the saga is blamed on the Treasury, which has failed to give the department a go-ahead to procure additional passports without tendering — due to what insiders say is fear of sparking another Anglo Leasing-like contract. This will now see the department return the money allocated for the exercise back to the Treasury at the end of the financial year (June 30), as a passport crisis hits Kenya for the first time in history. This is unless the Treasury issues the go-ahead this week. But the immigration department insists there is no cause for alarm.
