A Typo Takes Five Days, a National ID to Fix


May 17 , 2025
By Ahmed T. Abdulkadir


A woman on an adjacent white plastic chair suggested, half-joking, that we should start paying rent there. It was my third morning at the District Revenues Bureau. By then, a silent community of taxpayers had formed, bound by the shuffle from wooden bench to plastic seat in a queue that refused to shrink. The errand...






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