FORMER home affairs minister Stephen Kampyongo says the reason there is a shortage of passport booklets is that the previous administration only ordered enough to manage the transition period of changing from ordinary to digital passports. In an interview, Kampyongo said the deadline for the transition to digital passports is next year and there would be a crisis if the current government failed to adhere to it. “The matter of passports which most people are complaining about, you may wish to know that apparently there are two projects that are very critical under the Ministry of Home Affairs that we left at an advanced stage. One of them is migrating the identity, the sim registration process. What do I mean...

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