Members of parliament on Public Accounts Committee have grilled officials from the Directorate of citizenship and Immigration control militarization of immigration officers and 98 million shillings is spent.
This came after mps leant that immigration officers are taken at Butyaba military training ground for military skills including the officers who are about to retire from immigration department.
Mps who included Edddie Kwizera ,Paul mwiru , Jack Wamai Wamanga also raised concern how a senior military officer of the UPDF col .steven Kwirigiire heads the National Identity card project yet there is no memorandum of understanding between the ministry of Internal Affairs and UPDF.
However , the director of the Directorate of citizenship and immigration Godfrey Sasaga defended the training of immigration officers in military skills on ground that its done world wide.