The Kampala city mayoral candidate Emanuel Tumusiime has called for police to arrest the perpetrators of fraud in yesterday’s failed elections.
Peter Sematimba
Tumusiime, who had cast his vote yesterday morning, says he was surprised to hear the announcement from the Electoral Commission that elections in Kampala had been cancelled due to elections irregularities and ballot boxes stuffing.
Tumusiime says police should investigate the matter immediately and arrest the perpetrators and the Electoral Commission disband the candidates who the pre-ticked ballots were in favor.
Tumusiime has also threatened to withdraw from the race if the Electoral Commission does not revise the way it is conducting elections.
Tumusiime a candidate from the Forum for Integrity in Leadership wonders how the ballot boxes and ballot papers which were made from abroad could have been stolen from the Electoral Commission’s custody. He says that the Electoral Commission should be investigated.
Peter Sematimba of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party who the pre-ticked ballot papers were in favour has said that they are the opposition candidates who did it to tarnish his image and that of NRM. He has also asked police to arrest the perpetrators of the ballot boxes stuffing.