The Electoral Commission is about to hold country wide elections for Local Council I chairpersons using cost cutting measures that would soon be approved by the Parliament of Uganda. The measures to be considered for approval are contained in the Local Government (Amendment) bill of 2012. According to the bill, one of the cost […]
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 […]
The Electoral Commission (EC) has rejected the Democratic Party demands to extend the number of days for campaigns in the Butambala parliamentary by-elections. Addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Kampala, the party DP Secretary general Mathias Nsubuga demanded the commission to extend the period saying that the time allocated for the exercise is […]
It seems the embattled MP for Lubaga North; Singh Katongole is behaving like a wounded Lion or a mad tiger running around the jungles deep in the tropical forests of Africa. We have been reliably informed that the former MP on Wednesday went to the head offices of the electoral commission and knelt down before […]
The Electoral Commission has discovered that some LCI executives forge commission’s appointment letters. The commission’s chairperson, Eng. Badru Kiggundu has asked the police to investigate all persons on LCI committees who forge the commission’s appointment letters. Kiggundu says that the commission has received information that in Makindye Division in Kampala, some people last week forged […]