However, in an interview on Wednesday, the Works Ministry Permanent Secretary Waiswa Bageya, told Daily Monitor Face Technologies will have continue beyond the May 31 deadline to facilitate a smooth handover.

About a week ago, Face Technologies, had written to the Ministry of Works seeking to resume operations after government had partially lifted the lockdown.

Government, working together with USPC and Veridos, Mr Bageya said, they had determined the design and material for the new driving permits, noting they had also decided to maintain staff currently working at Face Technologies.

Last year in October, government, agreed to grant Face Technologies a transitional period within which it had to handover production of computerised driving permits to the Ministry of Works and Transport.

The meeting resolved not to renew Face Technologies' contract but agreed to give the firm a transitional contract to manage the handover of equipment, data and software to the government.