A source in government intimates to us that the appointing authority has instructed the commission chairman, Prof. Badru Kiggundu to outline all the commission workers sidelining with opposition such that they can be replaced with neutral ones.

A source in statehouse tells us that the president is not happy because intelligence chiefs briefed him that some of the electoral chiefs rig the polls in favour of opposition candidates.

Now the president has instructed Kiggundu to give him more information on the development such that the wrong elements in the commissioned can be fired and replace with moderate ones.

The development follows the recently concluded Luweero district woman parliamentary by elections in which the National Resistance Movement, the ruling party in Uganda lost the polls to the Democratic Party.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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Onek, who appeared before Parliament’s Rules, Privileges and Discipline committee this morning, contends that there are no provisions in the law requiring him to do so, adding that the resolutions passed in Parliament last month, calling for his resolution following the claims are merely advisory.

Onek was invited to the committee to make his case for not stepping aside following a petition tabled before the House by Kween County MP, Chemaswet Kisos for him, as well as Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi to do so.

Onek told the MPs his conscience told him not to step aside and that he had consulted with the NRM party and his constituents, who both advised him to continue holding his portfolio.

Asked by the committee chairman, Fox Odoi on whether the resolution on resignation was not binding, Onek explained that he can only step aside if ordered to do so by the appointing authority and attempts by Parliament to do so were not right.

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