Police\nhas apprehended thirteen people on suspicion of distributing National Identity cards\nto foreigners in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According\nto the police spokesperson Fred Enanga 12 are foreign students while the other\nis a staff member of the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA).\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing\nthe media on Monday in Kampala, Enanga noted that the suspects have been\nextorting money from other foreigners in exchange for the IDs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
NIRA\nspokesperson Gilbert Kadilo refused to comment on the allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese\nwere arrested on intelligence at the end of last week and they are being\nprocessed by our officers, at least each of these ones was found in possession\nof Ugandan National Identity Card,\u201d he said <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He\nnoted that these foreigners are being investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\nare tracing backward on how they got the information from the Local Council 1\nwho filled out these forms, you are very much aware of the fact that if you are\na Ugandan then it can either be by decent or by naturalization and so on,”\nhe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He\nadded that; “So the information has to be concrete and thorough but\nalready we are getting challenges that these have been established to be\nforeigners and funny enough you find they are having these national IDs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He\nurged all the foreigners to follow the right procedures in acquiring\ncitizenship <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We\nwould like to inform all foreigners who are in this country that there are\nalways correct procedures in place in acquiring Ugandan citizenship and\nnational IDs, these procedures are well laid out at the directorate of\ncitizenship and immigration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police has apprehended thirteen people on suspicion of distributing National Identity cards to foreigners in the country. According to the police spokesperson Fred Enanga 12 are foreign students while the other is a staff member of the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA). Addressing the media on Monday in Kampala, Enanga noted that the suspects have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":10295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-12545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n