Passport and Nationality Office Launched in Unity State
The Director of Passport, Nationality and Immigration, Augustino Madut has launched the registration exercise in Bentiu. 27 January 2013 Unity State Governor, Lt. Gen. Taban Deng Gai said the Nationality and passport should not be given to those who are not South Sudanese. [Gurtong | File] By Luk Riek Nyak BENTIU, 26 January 2013 [Gurtong] -While addressing the gathering at the State Passport and Nationality center in Bentiu, Madut urged every South Sudan citizens to register and to obtain their nationality certificates and passports as it will enable everyone to have his or her full right and to be recognized as South Sudanese. “It is our responsibility as a Directorate of Passport and Nationality which is delegated to us by the Ministry of Interior and the National Government to deliver services to the people of South Sudan at all levels,” he said. “We have been in a process to train people who can work in this field and to take it to all citizens in the remote areas…it’s our mission to issue this important documents that give us all right and responsibility to work, vote and to travel free around the world,” Madut added. He said the documents are not free of charge and it has a process that one need to go through before you obtain it such as filling the form, having a witness, blood group and a birth certificate and without these documents, the authority will not allow . “Opening this center here in Bentiu does not mean that only citizens of Unity State are the one to get this documents, it’s for all South Sudanese who are interesting to get their nationalities and passport in Bentiu, this process will not stop in the State capital but it will reach those in the grassroots levels like the counties in the coming near future,” he said. The Governor of Unity State Lt. Gen. Taban Deng Gai said that “through our long struggle to bring peace to this country, we come and reach this day to have our passport and Nationality to be issued here in the state.” “Nationality and passport should not be given to those who are not South Sudanese…if we are going to mismanage this, it will create insecurity because it may be given to tourists who can destabilized our security,” Deng said. Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
