Uganda's Parliament has continued to question the circumstances under which diplomatic passports are issued in the country following reports that many foreigners including former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra are issued the passports.
Ugpulse online has reported that apart from Thaksin, former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Wamba Dia Wamba also holds Uganda's diplomatic passports.
Moreover the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee is also questioning how Uganda's business tycoons, Michael Ezra, Moses Kalungi Hassan Basajjabalaba and Kananathan Veluppillai acquired the country's diplomatic passports.
Hassan Basajjabalaba, Kananathan and Michael Ezera are widely known to be supporters of the ruling National Resistance Movement.
The online quoted the MPs on the committee as saying that some office cleaners from the region where most leaders of the country come from also hold diplomatic passports.
The MPs seating on the committee are so concerned that the criteria followed in issuing diplomatic passports has been abused by some officials and supporters of the ruling government.
The lawmakers alleged that abuse of power in the Ministry of Internal Affairs may allow wrongdoers pretending to be supporters of the ruling government to acquire the Ugandan diplomatic passport and ended up committing crimes on the international scene.
The MPs want police to investigate the circumstances surrounding the issuance of diplomatic passports in the country.