State House Uganda Although this is Women’s Day, I would like to use this occasion to brief the country about the Identity Card Project. We have for long needed a reliable and easily traceable identity card that is also difficult to forge (counterfeit). We are about to achieve that through acquiring a computerized identity card which has got one’s picture, bio-data (name, height, etc) and a thumb-print (ekinkumu). All this information will be linked with a central memory, which will be linked with the smaller computers at the Sub-County or the mobile ones. This system is very crucial for an accurate voters register (including that of NRM), stopping debt defaulters from taking loans from multiple banks, stopping ghost Public Servants (civil servants, soldiers, policemen etc), handling pensions (no ghosts), stopping crime (finger prints will be easily traceable), tax collection (all tax payers and their businesses will be stored in the computer) etc, etc. It will be easy to record people who are: (born, those who die), know the foreigners and distinguish them from the citizens, population statistics for easy planning purposes etc, etc. I am glad the different departments which were not harmonized are now engaged in a common effort to computerize and capture the identities of Ugandan. These are: Uganda Bureau of Statistics; Uganda Registration Services Bureau; the Electoral Commission; the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration; and the National Information Technology Authority. Previously, all these were working at cross-purposes. I am glad they are now working together to produce an accurate, non-counterfeitable record of the Ugandans identity. Gen. Aronda has assured me that by April, 15th 2014, their teams will be in the Parishes recording people’s identities. Support them. As far as Women are concerned, with this computerization it will be easier to trace rapists by identifying their DNA from the semen they would have left in the victim, not to mention finger-prints. - President Museveni on the occassion to mark International Womens day, 8th March 2014, Kumi FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:39:46 +0000
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