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.