Successive decisions by the TFG officials concerned, particularly the delegation of authority for “online applications” to the Dubai Consulate and the dismantling of any centralized supervision of the process, have so gravely compromised the legitimacy and authenticity of the ePassport that it soon risks being of little more use to ordinary Somalis than the discredited green passport of the Barre era.
Successive decisions by the TFG officials concerned, particularly the delegation of authority for “online applications” to the Dubai Consulate and the dismantling of any centralized supervision of the process, have so gravely compromised the legitimacy and authenticity of the ePassport that it soon risks being of little more use to ordinary Somalis than the discredited green passport of the Barre era.