Monday, May 15, 2006

[Uganda/Rwanda] Who gave Rwandan rebels Ugandan passports? / Daily Monitor, 15 May 2006

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"The government is investigating how Ugandan passports were issued to leaders of a Rwandan rebel group operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
One of the men was arrested in Germany last month after he entered Europe on a Ugandan passport. In an exclusive interview with Daily Monitor, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Dr Ruhakana Rugunda confirmed that the man was traveling on a Ugandan passport.
He said, however, that preliminary findings by a team of investigators showed that the holders of the passports used false names to acquire them. “ We are trying to get the exact circumstances how they got the passports,” Rugunda said. “Uganda is looking into the accomplices in the immigration department who had a hand in it.” The probe into Immigration comes as a new law turning the embattled Immigration Department into a directorate after a series of scandals hit the organisation.2