National ID cards were introduced way back in 2014 as a Government move to identify each and every citizen residing in Uganda. A majority registered for enrollment in the initial printing register as the minority trashed the move as a 2016 elections political strategy. In 2019, you can’t legally own a sim card unless you own a National ID card and its by this league that having a physical copy with you is an initial requirement as having a UGX note in the wallet.
As a matter of fact, if your National ID card is lost in a shuffle, regaining it only requires you to have your registered thumb at par in order to keep in check with the NIRA ID regulations. Henceforth, here is how you can easily recover your lost National ID card.
Download a replacement form
The first step towards regaining your National ID card is heading over to the NIRA website and access the Forms drop-down menu which embeds the Forms for registration of persons category for a replacement form. Either way, once you download and fill the replacement form, accessing the nearest office will grant you a perfect bypass to the appropriate desk with all details intact.
Visit your nearest NIRA office
The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) main offices are located at the Kololo Airstrip. However, regional offices exist at district level and this is where you can conveniently get services you could have spent a shilling for on a hailed boda to NIRA. So, with your downloaded documents well filled in, the only pending requirement would be clearing the pending replacement fees for a new National ID card.
Prepare/Pay replacement fees
At only UGX 50,000, you get a National ID replacement with the same exact information as your lost original copy. Besides that, no additional fees are attracted once you fully replace your sim card at an authorized NIRA office.
So its very convenient and inexpensive to replace your lost ID card without any middle man attracted in the short process. Nonetheless, a National ID card is now a fundamental document that every citizen must have and losing it means you will have to go through the above simple steps in order to have a new copy.
