The National Identity Registration Authority (NIRA) has said that all children aged 16 years onwards will be registered for national identity numbers and national identity cards in the coming term of school.
“We would like to inform the public especially parents and guardians that we should be carrying out a mass exercise in schools this term in a bid to have students registered countrywide,” said Oborne Mushabe the spokesperson of NIRA in Kampala.
According to authorities, this exercise will target all school-going children in primary and secondary schools who have never registered for national identity cards.
In a press briefing, Osborne Mushabe revealed that Ugandans below 16 years upon successful registration will be given National Identification Numbers (NINs) while those above 16 years will be given national identity cards.
He noted that most of the young citizens below 16 years have not been registered but the authority will undertake this process before the mass renewal exercise of national IDs.
NIRA is set to roll out a mass national identity card renewal following the expiry of most of the national IDs.
The spokesperson called upon parents to give their children photocopies of their national IDs as they go back to school to ease the process of National Identity card acquisition.