NIRA announces nationwide issuance of ID cards

The National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA) on Tuesday announced it was embarking on a nationwide exercise to issue National Identity cards to persons whose cards are ready but have not been picked.

NIRA manager for public relations and corporate affairs Gilbert Kadilo noted that the national ID card issuance will be conducted at the sub-county level in all the districts in the country for 15 days, starting Monday, November 23 when NIRA teams will commence the issuance, until December 7, 2020.

"Details on the venues/ locations for the issuance exercise shall be defined by the respective NIRA district teams working in collaboration with the district leadership," Kadilo stated.

Kadilo noted that in order to ensure effectiveness in issuance, lists of persons whose national IDs are ready for issuance are to be availed to the village LC1 chairpersons from November 13-22, 2020.

Kadilo also announced that children who had registered under the registration of learners programme and had made 16 years at the time shall be issued with their national IDs. The national IDs of learners in this category will be issued at the sub-county headquarters under which their respective schools fall.

"Those who registered at Gayaza High School, for instance, shall pick their IDs from Kasangati and so shall the same apply for other schools across the country. 

Those below 16 years may continue to pick their National Identification Numbers (NIN) from their respective district offices under which their schools fall or from the respective headteachers to whom their NIN lists were made available," Kadilo further said.