The ministry in charge of registering and issuing Ugandan passports, Ministry of Internal Affairs has revealed that it will destroy all passports that have long been not collected in two months time.
The passports to be disposed off in September are those there were applied for and produced from 2018 to 2021and have not been claimed by the respective applicants to date.
This was revealed by Simon Peter Mundeyi, the ministry’s spokesperson who said the passports have stayed long in their possession regardless of efforts to hand them to rightful owners.
“We are in the process of destroying some of these passports because we have passports dating back in 2018 when we started issuing electronic passports and they are lying there. So we are beginning with those of 2018. We shall first advertise all of them and if you don’t pick them in one or two months this is your last chance.”
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 labour export companies provided particular telephone numbers for different groups of people.
“The problem is when some people were applying for passports, the labour export companies put their telephone numbers for all their clients. For instance if a company had 500 people, all messages went to one phone and these people don’t have time to read all,” Mundeyi said.
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.
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