{"id":10570,"date":"2022-11-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=10570"},"modified":"2022-11-13T18:40:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T18:40:55","slug":"ugandan-accuses-jubas-immigration-officers-of-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/14\/ugandan-accuses-jubas-immigration-officers-of-bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan accuses Juba\u2019s<\/strong> Immigration officers of bribery<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By William Madouk Garang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ugandan activist has revealed a shocking \u2018money extortion scheme\u2019 by some immigration officers who ask for $50 to $100 pay as another visa registration fees for aliens at the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stella Nyanzi, a dissident African Feminist explained that immigration officers harassed her after she refused to pay money for having a second laptop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I asked him why, he ordered me to follow an un-identified and un-uniformed man. When I refused to follow this complete stranger, your immigration officer in uniform and on duty threatened to arrest me\u201d Nyanzi narrated in letter addressed to President Salva Kiir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI screamed even louder and demanding for women officers. When two women came, they manhandled me in the presence of all at the airport, causing me to collapse onto the floor\u201d she continued.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When contacted for comment, the Director for Information and Public Relations at the Directorate of Civil Registry, Nationality, Passport and Immigration, Col. James Mapuor said the complaint has reached the top authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mapuor further said the Ministry of Interior plus other concerned government officials will give their response regarding the matter that \u2018smudged immigration officers of malpractice\u2019 on Monday (today).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Nyanzi who was in the country to attend alleged international conference, said she was then rescued by another immigration officer identified as Captain Akuot Aquila, who escorted her to driver and apologized on behalf of his colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She appealed to President Kiir to address the shameful high level of bribery and corruption at the airport to woo tourists, and foreign investors to come to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI observed immigration officers in uniform asking guests with visas from South Sudan embassies in their home countries to pay between $50 and $100 for a second so-called \u2018visa registration\u2019,\u201d Ms. Nyanzi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMayardit, please clean up your airport so that I have nothing to complain about when I return next to Juba\u201d she asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement posted by the activist on her Facebook was responded to with mix reactions, as some South Sudanese feel sorry for what happened \u2013 while others said Ms. Nyanzi was just seeking for attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stella Nyanzi is a Ugandan human rights advocate, poet, medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights advocate and scholar of sexuality family planning and public health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, she was arrested for insulting Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and on January 2022 she was accepted to live in Germany on a writers-in-exile programme run by PEN Germany, with her three children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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