The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) has received letters from 32 men in Uganda requesting the cancellation of their children’s passports.
This is after DNA testing revealed that they were not the biological fathers of their children.
According to a DCIC report, most men were inspired to conduct DNA tests on their children after reading recent stories in Ugandan newspapers about their counterparts who discovered that not all of the children in their homes were actually theirs.
In one case, a father of six living and working in Europe sought to have his children’s passports revoked after DNA tests revealed that the children he had raised and sent to school were not biologically his.
According to the Monitor, he secretly conducted the tests at the Directorate of Government Analytical Laboratory (DGAL), but was so taken aback by the results that he repeated similar tests in Canada and South Africa.
All the tests proved that he was not the biological father of his six children.
He stated that the decision to undergo the testing was made following a heated argument with his wife, who informed him that some of the children were not his. He had to replace the word ‘some’ with ‘none’ after the testing.
The men who applied for and received passports for their wives and children have reportedly returned and demanded that their names be taken off of the children’s passports, according to Simon Mundeyi, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Mundeyi claims that the DCIC was unable to grant the request and instead forwarded the complainants to the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) to update their information.
