Internal affairs ministry orders external labour companies illegally holding passports for Ugandans, to immediately return them to their owners.
This comes after several young girls expressed their dissatisfaction before the interior ministry claiming their passports are still illegally being held by some of the external labour companies that had intentions to take them abroad for labour but the move ended up failing.
According to the spokesperson of the ministry Mr. Simon Peter Mundeyi, over 8,000 Ugandan passports are illegally being held by some external labour companies.
Mundeyi says, that upon carrying out several investigations regarding the matter, following increased decry by most of the young girls, their intelligence ended up falling on one of the external labor companies where they managed to locate a total of 2,000 passports belonging to innocent young girls.
“We did carry out some investigations and discovered that one such company located somewhere in Kampala is actually keeping 2000 passports in their office for some of these Ugandans," he said
It's upon this background that Mr. Mundeyi has come out and tasked the external labour companies still having these passports to return them back to their intended clients if the move to take them out has totally backslid, adding that failure to do so they will face the consequences.
“We would like to call upon these companies to return back these passports since they cannot be taken out for labour, efforts to have their passports have fallen on deaf ears especially, and we are not going to hesitate to carry out operations in trying to retrieve these passports that are being held illegally by these companies," he added
Mundeyi further revealed how the companies are wrongly using the chance to ask for contracts and in case they are granted, they instead go ahead to ask the young girls to pay an extra fee for the passports that they had already processed and paid for in the passed.
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