Nationa ID Project - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:34:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Electoral Commission tasked to explain why it abandoned the voter’s register https://www.weinformers.com/2015/04/21/electoral-commission-tasked-to-explain-why-it-abandoned-the-voters-register/ https://www.weinformers.com/2015/04/21/electoral-commission-tasked-to-explain-why-it-abandoned-the-voters-register/#respond Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:34:35 +0000 http://www.weinformers.net/?p=40658 The Parliamentary Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has grilled officials from Electoral Commission over the decision to  abandon the national voters’ register and opt for data collected during the National Identification project. According to the committee chaired by Stephen Tashobya, the Electoral Commission was given money and is legally mandated to collect data to […]

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]]> The Parliamentary Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has grilled officials from Electoral Commission over the decision to  abandon the national voters’ register and opt for data collected during the National Identification project.
According to the committee chaired by Stephen Tashobya, the Electoral Commission was given money and is legally mandated to collect data to form the voters’ register but it decided to copy and paste data from the National ID project done by Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Chairperson of the Electoral Badru Kiggundu told the committee that commission had already extracted the data to form a Voters’ register and that the ‘register’ is now being updated at parish level across the country.
  
This revelation however, attracted furry from members who protested that the National ID data is full of mistakes and not everyone was captured during that exercise.
 
The members who included among others Kabakumba Matsiko, Medard Sseggona, Abdu Katuntu and Yona Musinguzi want the EC to explain why it abandoned its original register to adopt data obtained during the National Identification Project.

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