Officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were today grilled by MPs on the Defense and Internal Affairs over delay in implementing the National Identity Card project.

The project overseen by German company, Mulbauer Technologies will see at least 5 million Ugandans receive national IDs. The MPs are concerned that the project has lagged behind.

Obongi County MP, Hassan Kaps Fungaroo noted that the center where the IDs are to be printed is in poor shape and the staff underpaid.

Fungaroo says there should be a probe on the matter as government has injected billions of shillings to fund the project.

Uganda is lagging behind her East Africa Community neighours in issuing of national IDs to its citizens as the EAC member states seek to achieve a political federation by 2013.

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