{"id":43421,"date":"2026-09-05T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T08:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=43421"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:07:20","slug":"zambia-mukandila-nrc-passport-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/zambia-mukandila-nrc-passport-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Mukandila NRC, passport cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of National Registration, Passport and Citizenship has cancelled Tonse Alliance general secretary Celestine Mukandila\u2019s Zambian citizenship after determining that his National Registration Card and passport were obtained through fraud, false declaration and misrepresentation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>THE Department of National Registration, Passport and Citizenship has cancelled Tonse Alliance general secretary Celestine Mukandila\u2019s citizenship after withdrawing his National Registration Card (NRC) and Zambian passport.<\/p>\n<p>The move has been made after determining that the documents were obtained through fraud, false declaration and misrepresentation.<\/p>\n<p>According to government Gazette Notice Number 1418 of 2026, the cancellation rendered the documents invalid for identification, travel or any other official purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The notice, dated September 2, 2026 stated that any use of the cancelled documents could constitute an offence.<\/p>\n<p>Read further (Paywall): <a href=\"https:\/\/times.co.zm\/mukandila-nrc-passport-cancelled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/times.co.zm\/mukandila-nrc-passport-cancelled\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of National Registration, Passport and Citizenship has cancelled Tonse Alliance general secretary Celestine Mukandila\u2019s Zambian citizenship after determining that his National Registration Card and passport were obtained through fraud, false declaration and misrepresentation. &#8212; THE Department of National Registration, Passport and Citizenship has cancelled Tonse Alliance general secretary Celestine Mukandila\u2019s citizenship after withdrawing [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-zambia","type-news-articles","item-year-699","item-theme-id-documents-and-passports","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43423,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43421\/revisions\/43423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}