I have said all on the decision by EC to reject my nomination papers. Per s16 of law and the EC guidelines decisn can be revised in 7 days.

— Norbert Mao (@norbertmao) December 8, 2015

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— Norbert Mao (@norbertmao) December 2, 2015

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He was speaking as Uganda joined the rest of the world to commemorate the international human Rights day. He says that the electoral commission is still failing to conduct just elections that attract citizen’s trust.

Dr. Katebalirwe says the poor handling of the elections has resulted into number frequent bye elections which have often been challenged in courts of law.

He adds that the failure to conduct a just election is violation of people’s political rights.

The commission is also asking legislators not to pass the public order management bill in its current form into law.

The bill is currently before parliament for debate.

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This follows a newly acquired status for South Sudan as an independent state.

The Permanent secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs, Ambassador James Mugume says that Uganda had signed numerous agreements with Sudan which no longer apply after South Sudan became a sovereign state.

He says that the commission will among other things work on the numerous complaints raised by Ugandan traders operating in South Sudan and vice versa.

The commission will also focus on health, Education and infrastructure as key areas that may help the two countries work together.

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The affected teachers were discovered during a verification exercise that has been going on in the district for the last two weeks.

The district information officer Soul Waigulo said the teachers in question had papers indicating that they had obtained grade three teaching certificates but the service commission was not convinced prompting it to visit the said colleges for approval.

Waigulo said it was discovered that some teachers had never appeared in the college and others had never completed their studies.

He says that the service commission will temporarily suspend the teachers as investigations continue.

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The Jinja East Member of Parliament Paul Mwiru says the commission is on course with its report expected by January .

Mwiru say it’s unfortunate that fresh tension has emerged in the kingdom.

Since last week the Busoga kingdom headquarters have been tightly guarded by police after threats of attacks from both the Gabula Nadiope and Wambuzi’s supporters.

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Peter Ogwang says he was tortured by state operatives

The revelation was made by officials from the commission while presenting its 14^th Annual report for 2011 to parliament’s human rights committee.

The commission said the top five alleged violations remained the same as those registered in 2010 and included torture, detention beyond 48 hours, and complaints about the rights of children and deprivation of life.

the acting chairperson Agaba Maguru said torture cases increased from 276 in 2010 to 428 in 2011.

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The recommendation is contained in a report which has been handed over to the president today at Nakasero state house.

Several stakeholders including parliament had for some time tasked the commission to explain its delay in releasing the report.

However Handing over the report to the president the commission’s , Chairman Justice Ezekiel Muhanguzi, said all head-teachers, District Education Officers, Inspectors of Schools, and Public Service payroll managers, both at district and central levels, where mismanagement was reported should be brought to book.

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Butambala County parliamentary by election nominations starts on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

The electoral commission is done with updating the voter’s registers and the registers are being displayed in the constituency to remove the names of the dead or people who shifted from Butambala.

The Butambala district returning officer, Mark Muganzi is in charge of manning this by election exercise.

Muganzi says that the commission will nominate Democratic Party’s Muwanga Kivumbi, independent’s Faridah Nakiboneka, Uganda Federal Alliance’s Tomusange Batemyeto, Forum for Democratic Change’s Shalif Ssentongo, National Resistance Movement’s Faisal Kikulukunyu  and Farouk Walungama, a journalist with radio Bilaali.

The seat fell vacant after the High Court in Kampala nullified the election of Faisal Kikulukunyu over voter bribery.

Kikulukunyu was jointly sued with the Electoral Commission. Kivumbi accused the electoral commission of having failed to restrain Kikulukunyu from bribing voters during the campaign period leading up to the February 18th general parliamentary elections. The main factors all candidates claim to have is having the support of Kabaka and being Muslims.

Ends

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The Electoral Commission (EC) is in the process of deregistering some political parties over their reported failure to account for the funds they get from local and international donors.

The chairman of the electoral commission, Eng. Badru Kiggundu has sent letters to Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) and Democratic Party among others to justify why they should not be deregistered over failure to account for the said donor funds.

Kiggundu also says that many political parties may be deregistered because they are not on the ground. He says that most of these political parties don’t participate in elections and or check on government systems as required in law.

The commission chairperson says that they have started on the process of deregistering political parties that do not comply with the law.

Charles Ochola, the EC spokesperson, however says that the National Resistance Movement (NRM), Democratic Party (DP), Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), Justice Forum (JEEMA) Conservative Party (CP), and Forum for Democratic Party (FDC) have made partial accountability so far. Uganda has 39 registered political parties and organisations.
The laws of Uganda require that political parties in the country make annual accountability to the registrar and commission and send lists of their executive elected during delegates’ conferences to the EC.

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The Uganda police has come out to correct the erroneous reports attributed to the electoral commission (EC) and reported in the media, regarding police investigation into complaints of electoral fraud in the recent by election of Kasese woman MP representatives.

The police spokesperson Simon Kutesa says that EC contends that the arrest of the Kasese district returning officer on Saturday 11^th August this year, interupted the timely transmission of election results by the returning officer. He says that the EC further claims that the police took away all documents required to gazete Kasese district woman MP election results.

Kutesa says that the information EC gave out was not correct. He says that the criminal investigation directorate of the Uganda police force received several complaints ranging from outright electoral fraud to specific incidences of electoral malpractice during that by election in Kasese. Kutesa says that on Thursday the 9^th of August this year, the day after that by elections, police detectives contacted the district returning officer seeking clarification on matters raised in the received complaints. The returning officer informed the police that he was on his way to Kampala to file the statutory returns of the by election, and that he would return the following day.

Kutesa says that on Friday, detectives called the officer again and he assured them that he was still in Kampala at the EC head offices and he would travel back to Kasese later in the day. On Saturday the detectives called the officer several times and he claimed to be stuck in Kampala at the EC. The police leadership then requested the EC leadership to access its officer and they denied knowledge of his being in Kampala. The police then mounted a serach for the returning officer in Kasese and found him in his rural home in Kagango Sub County in Shema district. So Kutesa says that the claim by the EC that the police action interfered with timely transmission of the election results were false.

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