By Hannah Marion Namukasa
The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) is planning a mass enrollment and renewal of national IDs in Uganda starting August 2023.
Officials say the mass enrolment exercise is intended to register all unregistered Ugandans, including children at parish level.
As of September 2022, the National Identification Register had 25.9 million Ugandans registered.
It is estimated that 17.4 million Ugandans are not registered in the National Identification Register.
Section 54 of the Registration of Persons Act (ROPA) 2015 provides for compulsory registration with NIRA of all citizens of Uganda resident in or outside Uganda.
The mass renewal exercise beginning in June 2023 and ending in August 2024 will focus on renewing all cards issued between 2014 and 2015.
The first batch of National Identity Cards totalling to 15.8 million were printed and issued out during the National Security and Information Systems Project in the year 2014/15 and shall expire between August 2024 and June 2025.
