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Kampala, Uganda| AFP | THE INDEPENDENT | Judy Obitre Gama, the Executive Director National Identification and Registration Authority-NIRA will vacate office immediately the process to replace her starts.
Gama, who has been at the helm of the Authority since 2015, will not have her contract renewed on the orders of President Yoweri Museveni.
Gama’s contract expires on July 15, 2020.
In a May 18th, 2020 letter to Internal Affairs Minister, Jeje Odongo, Museveni directs that a new executive Director with Legal and Information Technology background be identified to head the Authority.
Gama’s reign at the Authority has been bogged by several issues in the issuance and replacement of identity cards. Some people who applied for IDs three to four years ago have not received them.
In 2018, the Auditor General said NIRA had failed to account for huge sums of money, which had been channeled to individual accounts.
NIRA was also accused of flouting procurement procedures during the exercise that was carried out in primary and secondary schools across the country during the national ID student’s enrollment exercise.
NIRA’s mandate as established by the Registration of Persons Act 2015 includes the creation, management, maintenance and operation of the National Identification Register; the registration of all citizens of Uganda; the registration of non-citizens of Uganda who are lawful residents in Uganda; the registration of births and deaths.
In February this year, Museveni appointed a new board for NIRA led by James Biribonwa, a Former Commissioner at Electoral Commission to help push the Authority to be effective.
Biribonwa then tasked the Authority management to explain the detailed process of National ID replacement and explain why it takes longer.
Gama, 50, is an academic who previously served as a lecturer at Makerere University law school and several board, including that of Uganda Registration Services Bureau, and Bank of Uganda.
She worked as head of legal and surveillance at Uganda Securities Exchange and as a lawyer for the National Environment Management Authority.
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we as Ugandans are fed up of such incompetent and ineffective government officials who sit in offices and make phone calls to check whether money has been channeled onto their accounts and live citizens to suffer in the hands of their corrupt employees.
you wake up early morning to line up for replacement processs and live the place at 5 o’clock,kololo is their den of corruption….. waiting for an I.D for over 90 days is humiliating yet those idiots are paid and equipped. They rest and come back at their own will as we wait in the scorching sun and with no money you live the way you came.let her go with her stupid staff many graduates can do that work.
Just help me and I get my ID
Under the name of TWONGYEIRWE BENON
From RWATAMU, KINONI, KIRUHURA DISTRICT
born 05-10-1997