Ministry of internal Affairs is constrained with a debt of 7.8 billion Uganda shillings owed by passport printing company of Delalur based in United Kingdom. Last week the same ministry announced that it had limited stock for ordinary passport but they had ordered for about 100,000 passports which are expected within two weeks.

The minster of internal affairs Rose Akol says though they generate over 500 billion Uganda shillings every financial year they have been allocated only 7 billion Uganda shilling to the directorate of citizenship and immigration which has at times limited the implementation of some of their project.

Akol adds that the ministry of Finance should consider giving them more funds to be in position to buy over 200,000 passport books as well as clear the debt of 7.8 billion Uganda shillings. The strong call by the minister comes at a time when the country is facing shortages in books used to print passport.