{"id":36481,"date":"2022-08-10T18:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=36481"},"modified":"2022-09-04T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T18:24:02","slug":"uganda-new-upgraded-national-ids-to-cost-taxpayers-shs600b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/uganda-new-upgraded-national-ids-to-cost-taxpayers-shs600b\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: New upgraded national IDs to cost taxpayers Shs600b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Derrick Wandera\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Peter Sserugo<\/p>\n<p>The government has set aside Shs600b for renewal of the National ID, which starts in June next year.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media yesterday, Minister of Internal Affairs Kahinda Otafiire said the money would be used to purchase high-tech machines that\u00a0 will make improved national IDs with a chip that can identify people\u2019s eyes and recognise their DNA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very huge task so this money will be used for paying the people registering, buying equipment and facilitating the process at large.\u00a0 The renewal of IDs will be free but those that want to do it online, they will have to pay Shs50,000,\u201d Gen Otafiire said.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/new-upgraded-national-ids-to-cost-taxpayers-shs600b-3909454\">https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/new-upgraded-national-ids-to-cost-taxpayers-shs600b-3909454<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0Derrick Wandera\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Peter Sserugo The government has set aside Shs600b for renewal of the National ID, which starts in June next year. Addressing the media yesterday, Minister of Internal Affairs Kahinda Otafiire said the money would be used to purchase high-tech machines that\u00a0 will make improved national IDs with a chip that can identify people\u2019s eyes [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-ouganda","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-683","item-theme-documents-d-identite-et-passeports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36482,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481\/revisions\/36482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}