In Usuk County parliamentary by elections one may confirm that the NRM’s reported maladministration is at work. You may just wonder the criteria the NRM organisation may have used to get its flag bearer in the race this time when they disregarded their own NRM party constitution which spells out that the flag bearer holds the flag for 5 years whether he/she won or was defeated in the race.

 The Usuk 2011 general Parliamentary elections were won by Michael Oromait who sailed on independent ticket and defeated the NRM flag bearer, Charles Olwenyi who also doubles as the NRM Katakwi District Chairman.

But after the demise of Oromait the seat fell vacant.  More interesting is that NRM quickly reportedly breached its constitution and organised primaries which saw 19 year old Proscovia Alongot Oromait, daughter of the deceased legislator and a Senior six candidate with no experience in politics defeated 5 other contenders minus Olwenyi who vowed to stand as independent but all this hullabaloo was engineered under the whims of the education minister and also Katakwi Woman MP Hon. Jesca Alupo.

 One could imagine that president Museveni will very soon go to Katakwi to campaign for Alongot Oromait and disregard the flag bearer -an S6 student who even failed to address the voters soon after her nomination.

With this kind of confusion in Usuk, some Ugandans bet on this and wonder how voters will be taken for granted. The organised political camps in Usuk now are the Democratic Party and the FDC.

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