Government to start issuing electronic passports in January

By Agnes Tumuheire on October 29, 2018 Dr Benon Mutambi, electronic (biometric) passports, Internal Affairs Ministry, National Identity Registration Authority (NIRA), uganda, Ugandan government Featured, Latest Uganda News, news & events, Technology

According to the Internal Affairs ministry’s Permanent Secretary,Dr Benon Mutambi‘s tweet on Friday, the Ugandan government is to start issuing electronic (biometric) passports beginning January 2019. “Uganda is ready to migrate from the current machine-readable passports to e-passports in January 2019,” Dr Benon Mutambi tweeted. Dr. Mutambi stressed that the already stored data in the […]