The Omaheke Region has registered seven thousand and eighty inhabitants without national documents during the national mass campaign, which started on February 5.

The campaign ends this month.

The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security, Lucia Witbooi, revealed these figures during a regional visit to the Omaheke Region.

Witbooi emphasised that the ministry has learned that there is a pressing need for many Namibians to obtain national documents, hence the initiative.

"This kind of programme last happened in 1997, so this year we got some resources to undertake.
With this mass mobile registration of national documents, we know the importance I believe all of us know the importance of national documents to have acres for different programmes, so the importance is there, and what we have come across in this exercise is that there are a lot of them and the need is big out there outside."

Witbooi also touched on escalating figures of undocumented people in the country, adding there was a need for a legal framework to assist in this regard, and the government was seized with the matter. 

Witbooi also bemoans about uncollected national identity documents at various regional offices in the country.

Omaheke Governor Pijoo Nganate welcomed the campaign. 

"I think if all government offices can work like home affairs, then we are set to go. These people are really working; the ED office is very responsive, and I mean, even several times with people of my own not even being governors, they just render a service."