The Ugandan Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) has received letters from at least 32 men requesting that their children’s passports be cancelled after DNA tests revealed that they are not biological dads.
According to the Daily Monitor in Uganda, the men sought for and obtained passports for their wives and children only to discover that the children were not their own.
The men have since demanded that their personal information be taken from the children’s passports.
DCIC, however, was unable to grant their request and instead referred their letters to the country’s National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) to amend their information.
According to a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Simon Mundeyi, the move was spurred by an article implying that some of their peers had recognized that not all children in their families were biologically theirs.
According to the publication, a guy working in Europe took the risky step of submitting his six children to a DNA test following a furious dispute with his wife, who subsequently informed him that three of the children were not his.
