Namibia's Vice-President, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, reaffirmed the government’s commitment to improving lives through infrastructure development during the inauguration of the new Home Affairs and Immigration office in the ||Kharas Region.
The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security continues to urge the public to collect their identity documents, which are lying idle at their offices around the country.
The Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security Ministry has served 8,228 people in the Kavango East Region in the recently concluded, six-month mass outreach campaign.
The outreach programme served to bring services closer to citizens in remote areas.
The Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security, Albert Kawana, expressed satisfaction with the cost of the construction of the Onhuno police checkpoint, which amounted to over N$8 million.
The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security has reiterated its call to those who do not have identity documents to take advantage of the mass registration programme.
So far, 34,802 people have acquired national documents since the programme's introduction.
The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security says the mass registration process countrywide is making good progress.
The Deputy Executive Director, Jackson Wandjiva, told nbc News that the ministry has so far achieved 70% of the set target.
The Home Affairs office at Rundu is inundated with stateless and undocumented persons who turned up for the mass registration process over the past few weeks.
The Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security says birth registration is a human right. Hence, parents should ensure that they register their children as soon as they are born.
The Chairperson of the Kavango West Regional Council, Joseph Sikongo, calls on the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security to increase the staff numbers at the Nkurenkuru Home Affairs office.
The office is reportedly only operating with two staff members.
The newly appointed Deputy Ministers were sworn in by Chief Justice Peter Shivute at State House today.
