Public accounts committee of parliament have directed ministry of internal affairs officials to produce before the committee the progress and performance report of the 1st phase of the Uganda population data base identification project.

According to the auditor general’s report of 2009/2010 the ministry officials  failed to produce the progress reports even after claiming to be having the performance report.

Members of the committee including Paul Mwiru, Vincent Kyamadidi and Henry Musasizi say that from the progress and performance report one can be able to find out more information about the delay in the project.

The permanent secretary for the ministry of internal affairs Steven Kagoda says that all the reports are with the electoral commission since it was the major implementer of the 1st phase.

He however promised to ensure that the electoral commission hands over the said reports to the committee.
Meanwhile the ministry is still looking for 110 billion shillings for the phase 2 of the project.

Kagoda says that the money will be used in paying off all contractual obligations, procurement of premises and installation of equipments and mass registration of all the citizens.

He however says that phase1 of the project was completed but phase 2 has failed to take off because there are no funds to kick start the process.