The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control has cancelled 260 Diplomatic Passports.
These had been applied for by Ugandans whose status does not warrant such travel documents.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs Spokesperson Simon Peter Mundeyi says that many Ugandans used the online passport application system to lie about their status and went ahead to pay for diplomatic passports, yet they did not qualify for them. Each Diplomatic Passport costs 500,000 Shillings.
The passports are reserved for the president and members of the first family, ambassadors, Foreign Service officers, high court judges and Permanent Secretaries. Mr. Mundeyi on passports…..
Many of those who paid for the diplomatic passports indicated that they were members of Uganda’s Foreign Service, judges or members of the first family.
Others had applied for service passports claiming to be Members of Parliament, Directors, and Commissioners attached to government Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
But the error was detected by the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control, after printing the passports. End.
