32 Ugandan men want children passports cancelled after DNA tests turn negative

The men demanded passport cancellation after the children's DNA tested negative.[File Standard]

The Ugandan Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) has received letters from at least 32 men demanding the cancellation of their children's passports after DNA results proved they are not biological fathers.

According to Uganda's Daily Monitor, the men had applied for and acquired passports for their wives and children only to realize the children were not their own.

The men have since demanded their details extracted from the children's passports.

However, DCIC was unable to grant their wish but instead forwarded their letters to the country's National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) to update their information.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesperson, Simon Mundeyi told local press that the move was prompted by an article that alluded that some of their counterparts had realized that not all children in their families were biologically theirs.

According to the publication, a man working in Europe had taken the bold step of taking his six children for a DNA test after a heated argument with his wife, who then told him in the process that some of the children were not his.

The wife then apologised saying that she had made the statement out of anger but the man secretly conducted the DNA test at the Directorate of Government Analytical Laboratory.

When the results came out, it showed that he had sired none of the children and the man opted to take the samples to other medical facilities which later confirmed the same.

Mundeyi said that since the report, countless men have then been visiting the government laboratory with samples of hair and nail cut off from their children for DNA tests.