{"id":35985,"date":"2022-08-23T20:12:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/busongora-poll-losers-blame-ec-security"},"modified":"2022-08-23T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T20:36:43","slug":"busongora-poll-losers-blame-ec-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/busongora-poll-losers-blame-ec-security","title":{"rendered":"Busongora poll losers\u00a0blame EC, security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Losers of the Busongora South parliamentary by-election in Kasese District have accused Electoral Commission of failing to prevail over the army, which allegedly intimidated residents.<\/p>\n

National Resistance Movement candidate Gideon Mujungu Thembo was declared winner of the election last Thursday with 12,088 votes.<\/p>\n

The National Unity Platform party candidate, Mr Jackson Mbaju, came second with 6,866 votes, while Mr Alozious Kighema Baguma of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party, was third with 5,564 votes.<\/p>\n

Mr Mbaju said the army\u2019s presence made the constituency look like a battlefield.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe election was a broad day robbery. It was mishandled by the state and they declared their own candidate. Military took over the electoral process,\u201d he said, adding that his party was yet to announce its final position on the matter.<\/p>\n

Mr Mbaju, who won the election petition in the Court of Appeal in June that resulted in cancellation of Mujungu\u2019s victory, said he must be compensated.<\/p>\n

The FDC president, Mr Patrick Oboi Amuriat, who had pitched camp in Kasese, said they faced harassment .<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was heavy deployment of military, police, and RDCs at all polling stations. Our candidate was brutally arrested. This was not an election but a war,\u201d he said, but added that they would not seek court redress.<\/p>\n

Mr Denis Namuwoza, who was in charge of the operation and deployment of security officers during the voting, said the deployment was meant to provide security.<\/p>\n

Mr Kighema said there was ballot stuffing and voter bribery by the NRM at many polling stations.<\/p>\n

However, the EC spokesperson, Mr Paul Bukenya, said the exercise was free and fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was only one incident that happened at Katunguru polling station where an FDC candidate was arrested because he kicked the ballot box,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr Chris Baryomunsi, the NRM vice chairperson for western region, attributed their victory to collective effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople realised that they have been voting Opposition who don\u2019t focus on service delivery. The people have been complaining to us that they don\u2019t have government-aided schools, have poor health facilities and roads, and since we promised to deliver them, the voters decided to vote for NRM,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dr Baryomunsi added that they are open to all the NRM deserters for reconciliation talks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were not securing an election but providing security to the entire district, you can\u2019t only provide security to the polling station. What if we get insecurity from in other places? So we had to deploy,\u201d Denis Namuwoza, police officer who was in charge of security operations during election<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Uganda. Losers of the Busongora South parliamentary by-election in Kasese District have accused Electoral Commission of failing to prevail over the army, which allegedly intimidated residents. National Resistance Movement candidate Gideon Mujungu Thembo was declared winner of the election last Thursday with 12,088 votes. 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