The electoral commission has noted with concern the incidents that happened in Kasese district woman MP polls and other Local Council by elections across the country. On Saturday 11th August, 2012, the Kasese district returning officer, Kanzira Tumwesigye and the assistant returning officer, Jacqueline Atuhairwe, were arrested by Uganda police allegedly on election-related fraud. The […]
Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President, Col. Kiiza Besigye has explained why president Museveni has managed to ‘win’ him in the last three presidential election contests. Besigye says that Museveni lost to Progressive forces of change by landslide this time in last week’s Kasese district woman MP by-elections. He says that when opposition parties minimise […]
Voter bribery, intimidation of supporters and arrests of opposition members marred Kasese district woman MP by elections on Wednesday. There was heavy military and police deployment in the district. But the voter turn up was low at most of the poling stations and a number of voting irregularities were reported. Much of the vote […]
It seems former minister Nathan Igime Nabeta is block. This has been exhibited by the speed at which he is exposing off his properties. We are told that after losing Jinja East MP by elections to FDC’s Paul Mwiru, Nabeta started selling off most of his houses, land and cars to settle debts he […]
Uganda’s leader of opposition, Ms Winnie Kiiza (FDC) claims that president Museveni’s government is plotting to rig Kasese district woman MP by elections. She says FDC is aware of the propensity to rig Kasese woman MP, intimidate, harrass, maim, and bribe voters. But Ms Kiiza says that considering the high mobilization the opposition in […]
President Museveni has said that he no longer wants this practice of members of opposition going to guard votes in different constituencies. Museveni says that whoever is found there should be arrested by the police. The president says that these opposition politicians especially MPs and opposition party leaders who go to areas where there are […]
The residents and voters in Bukoto South in Lwengo district in greater Masaka have started living in fear due to increasing police arrests. The MP elect for Bukoto South, Mathias Nsubuga told us that most of the people who have been arrested are members of the opposition Democratic Party. Nsubuga says that his supporters […]
Uganda Government has set October 2012 for Local Council One (LC I) national wide Elections. “The Government has set aside October 2012 as the period during which village and parish local council elections will be conducted across the country,” the State Minister for Local Government Alex Onzima confirmed to Parliament. He says that about […]
The parliamentary by elections in Bukoto South in Lwengo, greater Masaka was characterised by electoral malpractice, intimidation, high deployment by the police and the military, arrest of opposition supporters and cadres and vote bribery among other irregularities. There was high voter turn up registered comparing to other by elections that has been taking place […]
Although the people of Bukoto South in Lwengo district (greater Masaka district) have been peaceful throughout the parliamentary by elections in their area, two battalions have camped there for Thursday’s elections. Each battalion comprises of 1,000 soldiers so the president has reportedly sent 5,000 soldiers to camp in Lwengo for the by elections. The […]