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COMMENT | Fast-track approval for imports, rejection for the native-born
COMMENT | Reading media reports of failed citizenship applications and heartbreaking court battles never fails to tug at one’s conscience.

Each story reflects not just personal disappointment but the crushing weight of double standards that leave genuine applicants in despair.

As someone who has followed and written extensively on the seven foreigners swiftly granted citizenship to play football for the country, one cannot help but feel dismayed at the stark contrast with the conduct of the National Registration Department (NRD).

The disparity is not only glaring but deeply troubling, for it exposes a system in which compassion seems absent, and fairness is not applied consistently.

Why is compassion extended to foreign footballers but denied to... 


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