South Sudan receives 120K national ID cards from Germany

JUBA – South Sudan government has announced that it has received at least 120,000 cards which are using in the processing of national identity cards, according to the country’s director-general of nationality, passports and immigration Maj. Gen. Atem Marol.

Speaking to journalists yesterday at the headquarters of the immigration office in Juba, Gen. Marol called on South Sudanese to go to pick their documents which have already been issued since a long time ago, saying over thousands of issued IDs haven’t been taken by owners.

“I am requesting commercial banks, government banks that if people go to the bank and want to open a bank account; let the person open a bank account using the national identity. The national certificate is a supporting document to a national ID,” he said.

“We are so behind in the national ID meeting, which was conducted two months ago in Morocco, that the number of people in South Sudan who have a national identity are less than 18 per cent,” added the high-ranking police officer.

He said that “Last year when I came, I decided to print all that was in the system. That is the reason we have more than 60,000 printed national certificate cards outside. I want to direct the directorate of nationality to print these within four days.”

“People of the warehouse, you give 7,000 pieces to the department of the machine so that they print them. Let the printing start today if you are ready, let us clarify what is there in the system.”