The government has urged all refugees in the country to refrain from registering their SIM cards using borrowed Kenyan IDs and instead use their own Refugee IDs.
In a notice on Thursday, June 12, the Department of Refugee Services announced that all refugees in the country can legally register their SIM cards using their Refugee ID, enabling access to essential services such as mobile money.
The department directed all refugees who had used someone else's ID card to register their SIM cards to immediately regularise their registration.
According to the department, registering a SIM card with another person's ID violates Regulation 9 of the new Kenya Information and Communications Regulations, 2025.
