The court found evidence of illegal campaign activities and widespread voter disenfranchisement, leading to the decision to set aside Nalukoola’s win. NUP’s Nalukoola Loses Kawempe North MP Seat as High Court Nullifies By-Election-Orders Fresh By-election Following High Court ruling in election petition No. 01 of 2025 in favour of petitioner Hajat Faridah Nambi, the respondent […]
Court found evidence of illegal campaign activities and widespread voter disenfranchisement, leading to the decision to set aside Nalukoola’s win. Justice Namanya ordered the Electoral Commission to conduct a new election and ruled that each party must bear its own costs. Mukono NRM Elections Marred by Irregularities as Candidates Walk Out in Protest The High […]
Kira Municipality MP Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda has demanded that Speaker of Parliament Anita Annet Among explain the delay in swearing-in Elias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola, the newly elected Member of Parliament for Kawempe North. This comes after Nalukoola won the hotly contested by-election on March 14, 2025, yet and he is yet to take the oath of […]
H.E THE PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT ON KAWEMPE NORTH BY-ELECTION Fellow Ugandans, especially the Bazzukulu, greetings. It is good that we are getting the rains after a very hot season. Stop damaging the environment, please, wherever you are. In this piece, I am writing to inform you that an electoral and criminal investigation has started in the […]
As Ugandans are grappling with how to reconcile with the aftermath of the short lived but hard-to-forget March 13th Kawempe North parliamentary by-election, members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party have rejected the by election result released by the electoral commission. It has been reliably learnt that during the […]
The Electoral Commission has declared Erias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola as the duly elected Member of Parliament for Kawempe North by-election. Nalukoola has garnered 17,764 votes followed by NRM’s Faridah Nambi with 8,593, Mulerwa Hanifah Karadi, independent 381, Luwemba Lusswa Muhammad 240 and FDC’s Sadat Mukiibi a.k.a Khalifah Aganaga 239. Others are; Muhamood Mutazindwa Independent, 186, […]
Tension as Handcuffed Suspect Escapes From Mukono Police Custody The Independent Electoral Commission Uganda is in charge of Kawempe North by-election which is taking place today, Thursday March 13, 2024. At exactly 5:00am, the dispatch of polling materials kicked off with police officers escorting the polling officer together with the materials. According to the Electoral […]
As unrest rages in the National Unity Platform (NUP) camp since campaigns for Kawempe North parliamentary by-election were flagged off last week, party members continue to cry out over alleged irregular arrest of their members, whom they claim are taken to unknown places. In the latest of such developments, Ssentongo Shakur was on Wednesday picked […]
The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Director for Mobilisation, Cadre Identification, Recruitment and Placement, Rosemary Nansubuga Sseninde has urged parents and youth in Kampala to express gratitude to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for his initiative aimed at equipping ghetto youth with practical skills. “Kampala residents should be wise and vote for NRM and President Museveni in […]
Government has distanced itself from the violence that has been witnessed during the recent campaigns for the Kawempe North by-elections saying the actions of individuals britalising citizens aren’t state sanctioned and proposed to have the perpetrators held liable for their actions. Right from the day National Unity Platform (NUP) flag bearer, Erias Luyimbaazo Nalukoola was […]