NIRA – the National Identification Regulatory Authority, is the body in charge of issuing out national ID Cards to citizens and replacing the lost ones in cases where a card has been lost or damaged.
Ever since the national registration exercise kicked off in 2014, there have been over 24 million people registered across the country.
Despite this being a success, a section of these can not put to use their identity cards – precisely because of various errors that were made in their identification details.
This is mainly evident with misspelt names, wrong date of birth, wrong residential areas, among others. To make the matters worse, the process to resolve the errors has proven to be hectic and unending.
Over the past three years, to rectify any errors on a National ID you have been required to submit a dully filled Form 11, and make a payment of 50,000/- to issue you a new error-free ID.
The parties looking to sort these issues out on their cards often got stranded in long lines at the NIRA offices in Kololo, something that prompted the Authority to open up offices at district level last year.
Now the body states that an exercise to rectify errors on all complaints will commence on the 14th of January, and go on for three months at sub county level.
We additionally starting 14 January 2019 going to be all sub counties conducting #NationalIDUg registration for 3 months- Col Moses Mwesigwa..Manager Registration and Operations- Headquarters pic.twitter.com/yOrrMgynVl— NIRA (@NIRA_Ug) December 28, 2018
It is in the same period that further registration for those who did not get national IDs will resume. The process is estimated to cost over UGX 7 billion.
