Muyanja expressed dismay that an exercise geared at identifying upright citizens to help in provision of desired services to the people like safe water, good roads, schools and other necessities of life, is being conducted with involvement of guns.
Mukono National Unity Platform (NUP) candidate for the district chairman’s seat, Johnson Muyanja Ssenyonga has decried what he termed acts of gross rigging characterized by scaring away his party supporters, arresting them, intimidating local leaders into submission to their acts of violence, use of heavily armed soldiers under the guise of scouting for wrong elements, and a host of other anomalies.
Ssenyonga said armed men travelling aboard vehicles with concealed registration numbers had chased away voters from six polling stations and engaged in acts of illegally ticking ballot papers, all in broad day light.
“We know of polling stations where voters did not exceed 290 but with over 300 ballot papers ticked and stuffed into boxes; we are going to ask the EC to cancel results from such polling stations,” Muyanja cried out.
Muyanja expressed dismay that an exercise geared at identifying upright citizens to help in provision of desired services to the people like safe water, good roads, schools and other necessities of life, is being conducted with involvement of guns.
Citing cases of irregularities committed by armed men, Muyanja said the LC I Chairman for Kigombya zone in Mukono had been coerced into succumbing to irregularities by NRM chairman travelling with soldiers.
Meanwhile, the NRM candidate for the same post Francis Mukoome Lukooya decried the law turn up of his voters, and attributed this to threats and scares meted out to them by NUP activists, and appealed to his supporters to defy the threats and go to exercise their constitutional right.
Commenting on the exercise, the LC I Chairman for Buziranduulu village Frank Ndugwa admitted that some incidents of voter intimidation had been cited, but that it was gradually dying away with people turning up in bigger and bigger numbers by the day.
On his area’s requirements, Ndugwa cited roads and safe water, noting that after acquisition of a housing estate in the area, the population had soared to over 1,000 who he said cannot be adequately serviced by the single bore hole in the area.
