"Even if you are born and bred here, gone to school here, and did everything here... although they say 'Ugandan by birth,' it doesn't mean that you automatically are.
Citizenship is of different types here.
There is citizenship by birth. This means your father, your mother, are Ugandans, or at least one of them, or one of your grandparents is a Ugandan. That's when they refer to you as a citizen by birth.
Citizen by birth is when you are born to either both your parents as Ugandans, or one of them, or one of the grandparents.
Then there is citizenship by registration. These are the others who register after a long stay, acquiring it due to marriage or due to naturalization. So we have those types of citizenship.
So now, in Uganda, even if you are born here and have done everything here, even if you spoke Luganda better than the Kabaka of Buganda, knowing the *sokos* and *ngeros*, you will not become a Ugandan if your parents are not Ugandans.
If both your parents are non-Ugandans, you will remain a non-Ugandan for as long as you do not have any of your parents being a Ugandan. That is what happens here. The law is not automatic."
Simon Peter Mundeyi, Spokesperson Ministry of Internal Affairs addressing a Journalist