One held for selling national ID registration forms

ID registration in progress. File Photo

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The suspect however confessed that he has been selling national ID registration forms to many other people in the area.
Central North Police spokesperson, Mr Mansur Sowed confirmed the incident adding that since last week the enrolment centre had reportedly run out of registration forms

Police in Lira is holding a crime preventer for allegedly selling National ID registration forms to locals at Shs 500.

The suspect, a resident of Teso bar A village in Adyel division was arrested after he sold a registration form to a one Mr Bosco Odyek a resident of the same village.

The suspect however confessed that he has been selling national ID registration forms to many other people in the area.
Central North Police spokesperson, Mr Mansur Sowed confirmed the incident adding that since last week the enrolment centre had reportedly run out of registration forms.

“When we searched his home, we recovered over 115 blank registration forms, but he claims that the forms were kept there by his friend who supervises the registration centre,” Mr Sowed said.

Meanwhile, Locals in Amuru district have faulted LCI Chairpersons and elders at Bibia Parish, Atiak Sub-County for registering South Sudan Nationals in the ongoing ID registration.

The blame comes days after a South Sudan national and resident of Mugalu town in Central Equatoria, was arrested by police on Monday at Bibia West while attempting to register as a Ugandan citizen.

The suspect was detained briefly at Bibia Police post along with the LCI Chairperson of Bibia West parish and one of the enrolment officers. However, the suspect (Sudanese) disappeared from the police cells on Tuesday without trace.

Speaking to Daily Monitor on Wednesday, the LCIII Chairperson of Atiak Sub-County, Mr John Bosco Ocan, reported that they have received information implicating the elders and LCs who connive to register South Sudan nationals for the IDs. In Amuru district, over 62,255 (75 percent) people have been registered.

This development comes after Government on Tuesday told parliament that the ongoing registration for national identity cards has been pegged back by malfunctioning kits, extortion, unreliable power supply and delay in supplies, among a litany of operational difficulties.