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Uganda: Ministry Stuck With 5,000 Passports


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New Vision (Kampala)

7 August 2008
Posted to the web 8 August 2008

Jeff Lule
Kampala

THE Ministry of Internal Affairs is stuck with 5,000 uncollected passports.

"We are going to hold a management meeting to decide on what to do," the legal Officer, Eunice Kisembo said.

"Many people lose their receipts which indicate their passport numbers and the appropriate dates of application."

Middlemen, she said, have turned passport processing into a lucrative business by extorting money from ignorant applicants.

"They charge them a lot of money and promise to get them passports, which they do not do. The current system calls for the applicants to pick their own passports and this has scared many middlemen who fear possible arrest. It has also prevented some applicants from picking their passports," she explained.

She said some uncollected passports belong to people who died and those who lost hope of travelling.

She said the ministry was streamlining an information flow system, which would remind applicants to pick their passports.

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"We have started the use of SMS media as a way to remind people," she said.


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