The ministry of Internal Affairs has issued an ultimatum to people who have not collected their passports, informing them that they will be destroyed in two months.
Simon Peter Mundeyi, the ministry’s spokesperson said the passports to be destroyed in September are those were applied for and produced from 2018 to 2021.
Recently, the ministry revealed that they are stuck with over 40,000 unclaimed passports and that they don’t have space to keep them safe.
However, Mundeyi blamed part of the problem to the application process of these passports saying that most labor export companies provided particular telephone numbers for different groups of people.
For that matter, the ministry advised all those that applied from 2018 not to wait for messages but to go to Kyambogo passport pick up centre and collect them. END