{"id":9239,"date":"2022-09-17T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2022-09-16T20:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T20:19:33","slug":"only-20-of-south-sudanese-population-have-national-ids-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/17\/only-20-of-south-sudanese-population-have-national-ids-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 20% of South Sudanese population have national IDs-official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Director General of Directorate of Civil Registry, Nationality, Passport and Immigration, Lt. Gen. Atem Marol Biar (photo: courtesy)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

People of South Sudan are lacking basic proof of national identity; out of an estimated population of 12 million people in the country only 20 percent are reportedly having legal identification documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Directorate of Civil Registry, Nationality, Passport and Immigration (DCRNPI), said majority of people are not well informed about the significance of having national identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement was made during International Identity Day which was celebrated in Juba for first time on Friday. The D-Day observed annually on Sept 16, aimed at making awareness about important of IDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boss of DCRNPI, Lt. Gen Atem Marol Biar said more than one billion people worldwide are lacking basic proof document in which South Sudan is among them, assuring that all will have IDs by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have decided to celebrate this day on the 16th<\/sup> of September each year as to be a reference to the UN sustainable global development goal 16.9 which says by 2030 provides legal identity for all, including birth registration,\u201d Biar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He called upon all state authorities, all relevant government institutions to stand with them and support to achieve the global aim for people to acquire legal documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a need for us to have   identity and I use to say this every day. The world has so far gone ahead of us and we remain behind,\u201d he urged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DCRNPI Director-General urged partners to support the directorate to conduct awareness outreach to people in the country\u2019s ten states and three administrative areas about the importance of national IDs and its privileges.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Director of ICT, Col. Kuc Koor Kuc said the idea was initiated by an NGO known as ID4Africa, asserting that the Country is still lagging behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we put ourselves in the list of the people [countries] who are having identity, in South Sudan we are very bad and we are really very far behind,\u201d Kuc lamented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom the number which is 12 million people population of South Sudan \u2013 only 20 percent of people are having national Ids,\u201d he assured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For his part, Amb Joshua Franco Paul who works at Directorate of Consular Affairs at national ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation thanked immigration for making people understand the vital of celebrating the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s through this identity that you will uphold yourself as a true sons and daughters of South Sudan,\u201d Amb. Paul noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIdentity is a milestone of each and every human being in his\/her own country. Identity is important in such a way that without identity you will not have even nationalism,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ambassador Paul stressed that the spirit of nationalism comes as recognition of one\u2019s own identity \u2013 showing his belongingness to a particular country and region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Identity Day has been there since 2018, it\u2019s celebrated every Sept 16 \u2013 it calls for legal identity for all by 2030 and attributed to UN sustainable Development Goal 16.9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By William Madouk Garang People of South Sudan are lacking basic proof of national identity; out of an estimated population of 12 million people in the country only 20 percent are reportedly having legal identification documents. The Directorate of Civil Registry, Nationality, Passport and Immigration (DCRNPI), said majority of people[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9241,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions\/9241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}