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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control has denied allegations by lawyers representing exiled novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija of refusing to issue passports to his three children.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the lawyers petitioned the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) accusing the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control of refusing to issue passports to Kakwenza\u2019s children, despite fulfilling the requisite requirements.<\/p>\n

Mr Simon Mundeyi, the Internal Affairs publicist, in an interview with Saturday Monitor on Thursday said: \u201cWe do not deny Ugandans passports. The qualification for passports here is citizenship, not any other. If they apply for passports, Kakwenza\u2019s children should wait like other Ugandans do.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe have been clearing a backlog of 90,000 pending passport applications. We are now working on the last backlog which includes the children of Kakwenza and their passports will be issued on Monday. When Kakwenza\u2019s children applied for passports, we were having a system upgrade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Background<\/b><\/p>\n

Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, 33, left the country earlier this year after a magistrate denied his application to have his passport returned in order to seek treatment abroad after he was of torture by security operatives while in custody.<\/p>\n

Kakwenza is accused of using social media to insult President Museveni and his son, also the commander of the Land Forces of the Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba.<\/p>\n

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