Huduma Kenya and NTSA have announced a Smart DL (Driving License) enrollment exercise at the Huduma Center Kimilili, running from June 15 to 19, 2026.
This means people in Kimilili and the wider Bungoma County can now sign up for the new Smart Driving License without having to travel to Nairobi or other big towns.
The exercise is part of the government’s push to upgrade Kenya’s driver’s license system. The Smart DL replaces the old paper license with a plastic, chip-enabled card that stores fingerprints and other biometric data, making it much harder to fake or duplicate.
NTSA has been slowly rolling out enrollment beyond Nairobi, and Kimilili is one of the latest towns to get the service.
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For people in Western Kenya, this is good news in practical terms. Previously, obtaining or renewing a Smart DL often meant going to NTSA offices in larger towns, a journey that added cost and time to an already bureaucratic process.
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The government designed Huduma Centers as one-stop service points to reduce that friction in the enrollment process. The Kimilili center has been operational for several years and serves a constituency that includes a significant rural and peri-urban population.
The enrollment period is 5 days, so demand is expected to be high and applicants are advised to arrive early. Applicants should bring their National ID, a passport-size photo, and proof of payment for the required NTSA fee.
Those renewing expired licenses should also have their old licenses in hand. NTSA’s eCitizen portal remains the starting point for initiating the application before physical biometric capture happens at the center.
Huduma Kenya sits under the Ministry of Public Service, Human Capital Development, and Special Programs, and the joint branding on the announcement with NTSA signals coordinated inter-agency delivery, the kind of service integration Huduma Centers were originally conceived to enable.
Whether this 5-day window in Kimilili becomes a one-off or the template for a nationwide rollout will likely depend on how smoothly this trial run goes.
If uptake is strong and the biometric capture process holds up under demand, it would not be surprising to see NTSA and Huduma Kenya extend Smart DL enrollment to other smaller centers around the country in the coming months.
