Minister of home affairs, immigration, safety and security Lucia Iipumbu has announced that the ministry would soon introduce a security vetting process for all new employees. She said this on Thursday in the National Assembly while responding to questions of official opposition leader Imms Nashinge. Nashinge posed questions on the systemic vulnerabilities within the processes of application, verification, and issuance of national documents that have been identified as contributing factors to an alleged fraud syndicate’s operations. He questioned what concrete, time-bound measures the ministry is implementing to strengthen these systems to enhance security features of national documents, and prevent fraudulent activities in future. “We are strengthening the security measures, not only for the documents, but also for all the processes we are undertaking, and we are going to make it mandatory to conduct security vetting on all our new employees in future to ensure we do not bring in people we do not want and not deliver the services that we want,” she said. Iipumbu said they are looking at internal risk mechanisms and are improving them while ensuring that outdated legislation are reviewed accordingly. She said the ministry has strengthened the regional structures with eight deputy directors, because in the past only junior officials were in the regions and are now clustered. “We have revised the birth registration approval process and are also appointing some chief officers and seniors and the regional officers, because we wanted to ensure they are decentralised to serve their purpose,” she said.