Tag Archives: vote rigging

Kisoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has promised to investigate vote rigging claims in the recently concluded National Resistance Movement (NRM) party primaries for the Kisoro District Woman Member of Parliament. Rose Kabagyeni was declared the flag bearer by the NRM electoral commission, Tang Odoi after garnering 3,9941 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has denied that there was vote rigging during last month’s East African Legislative Assembly-EALA elections. Speaking to Uganda Radio Network, Chris Obore, the director for information at Parliament said their records show that there were neither unauthorized persons who participated in the election nor …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Jinja High Court resident judge Eva Luswata on Thursday granted Salaamu Musumba substituted service. Musumba applied for substituted service on claims that Kadaga or her agents had declined to receive the petition in which she is accused of involvement in vote-rigging and voter bribery during …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Justice Eva Luswata, the Jinja High Court resident judge will hear Salamu Musumba’s application of substituted service against the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga.  Musumba applied for substituted service on claims that Kadaga or her agents had declined to receive the petition in which she …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The LC chairman of Katabi-Kitubulu village in Entebbe, Eric Kyeyune has been shot dead this morning in Entebbe during a combined NRM-DP protest against alleged vote rigging. The deceased allegedly shot by soldiers has also been the National Resistance Movement -NRM chairperson of the area …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Candidates and their agents have identified a number of ways through which they allege that rigging may be done. In a training for some polling agents in Wakiso district, the chief facilitator Godfrey Mpagi said that the ways through which the voting exercise is rigged …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Opposition leaders in Iganga district have accused Electoral Commission-EC officials of failure to use strong seals on the ballot boxes which they say creates suspicion of possible vote rigging before the polling day. It was observed that out of the 323 ballot boxes received at …

Mityana, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) presidential candidate Rtd. Gen. Greg Mugisha Muntu has rallied Ugandans not to get worried about vote-rigging.  Muntu says that worries of vote-rigging will demoralize the electorate to cast their vote.   While campaigning in Mityana district on Tuesday, Muntu asked the …

Blantyre, Malawi | AFP | Malawi’s constitutional court is set to rule next week on whether to annul controversial poll results that saw the re-election of President Peter Mutharika, a verdict widely expected to stoke turmoil. The case has gripped the southern African nation and kept Malawians glued to radio stations …