The High court in Kampala has nullified the election of Elias Nalukoola Luyimbazi as the member of parliament for Kawempe North and ordered a fresh by-election.
The ruling, delivered by Justice Bernard Namanya, followed a successful petition by Faridah Nambi Kigongo of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), who challenged Nalukoola’s election on grounds of electoral malpractice.
In his judgment, Namanya cited two main reasons for the nullification. Firstly, the court found that 16,640 voters in the constituency, including the petitioner Faridah Nambi, were disenfranchised, which the judge said “affected the result of the election in a substantial manner.”
Secondly, the court held that Nalukoola personally campaigned on polling day at Mbogo Primary School Playground and Kazo Angola LC I Office polling stations, contrary to Section 100 (1)(a) and (b), and Section 100 (2)(a) and (3) of the Parliamentary Elections Act (Cap. 177).
Such conduct amounts to an electoral offence. The Electoral Commission has been directed to conduct a fresh election. Each party has been ordered to bear their own legal costs.
Lets pray for a peaceful by-election
God press your blessed hand upon Ugandans
Whats new !
The only surprise , for me, is that Mr. Namanya did not pronounce Hajat Nambi as the winner.
This is Kawempe which wrongly elected the late Ssegirinya . No sooner had Ssegirinya been elected was he harvested and dumped in a basement where he was taught Runyankore until he was dead.
At least , Haji -to-be Nalukoola has been lucky enough to be allowed to represent Kawempe for more than two long months.
We can only thank God for blessing Uganda with a very speedy Judge called Namanya. It took this wonderfull judge only a week to go through 5000 pages of documents and arrive at the quickest removal of an elected MP
For those who are not happy with what took place today , the message is : fasten your belts; we are in for a tough landing.
This is only the beginning of strange things. Hajat Nambi , a muslim woman dressed as such from head to toe does not have any time to care if her fellow muslim is away for a holy mission. She is only interested in grabbing his win .
And why not ? Isn`t she the daughter of the Vice Chairman , one of the wealthiest individuals in this country ?
If His Excellency can shower his son with all that unlimited power , why shouldn`t his Vice buy a win for his girl ?
Jes, great question, what’s new? Certainly, it’s M7/NRM who rigged the Kawempe byelections but failed to win. Our bogus and violent election will never give us any surprise. Bogus and violent elections for MPs are totally meaningless and have no benefit to us, Ugandans, but those in power. Take the example of the recent militant bill which was passed by NRM MPs only, who are over 400 compared to the little over 100 opposition MPs.
So, the difference always remains the same.
Kyagulanyi/NUP are the masters of business 101, in which an entrepreneur is a risk taker. In other words, they go to bogus and violent elections not to represent the people and/or bring change but to make money.
Ramase why are you obsessed with money? We all know that whatever happens NRM MPs with their numbers in Parliament will pass any shit brought to them cos they are always paid millions for this. I think you should go after this trash instead. Nambi because of her father thinks Kawempe is her right to have it is her heritage and people can dies she does not give a single care as long as what belongs is back in her hands. As for Namanya she is a used tool and once her usefulness is over she will be dropped like a dirty piece of rug.
Mae, rather than earning taxpayers money, could you tell me, what benefit do we get from parliament? When laws are passed, it’s parliament, not NRM, which passes the law. That’s why “federo” was eliminated from the constitution. That’s why term limits were lifted from the constitution. That’s why age limits were lifted from the constitution. That’s why the militant bill was passed in parliament. However, it’s business as usual!
So, what benefit do we get from Kyagulanyi/NUP and/or the opposition? To be precise, what benefit do we get from bogus and violent elections?
Our nation is captured. There’s neither democracy nor rule of law is Uganda. Politicians and/or those in power are simply making money.
Please indulge me. How does Kyagulanyi / NUP make money in your argument?
I want to know so that I can also make money, so how does NUP make money ?
How did Kyagulanyi make money before joining politics and on top of that he is not from a poor family? Are you jealous? Get a job and work or start a business I earn well my living and I am not suspicious of every person who is not begging and is happy with what they are earning
Please, let us not write stuff just for the sake,
Does this statement make sense ?
Kyagulanyi/NUP are the masters of business 101, in which an entrepreneur is a risk taker. In other words, they go to bogus and violent elections not to represent the people and/or bring change but to make money.
Again, my question was how does Kyagulanyi make money in this mivuyo. To me the above statement if it cannot be explained cannot be understood at all ?
Do you want to be of the same mind as the police officer who found semujju nganda walking to work holding a bottle of water and accused him to terrorism ?
Kyagulanyi/NUP make money in bogus and violent elections. M7 made Politics in as means to make money not to serve the people.
Mr.Remase , you must be exceptionary motivated. I wish there were more like you.
But I will join others who do not understand why you have to connect Kyagulanyi to everything. It would help if you could explain why he only is the beneficiary of violent elections.
Of late , almost all opposition MPs from Acholi made a pilgrimage to Mr. Museveni`s State House. It was rumoured that money changed hands.
Then , Hon . Akena of UPC suddenly declared that he is going to quit parliament and stand for the presidency in what you describe as “bogus and violent elections”
It is also well known that Katonga FDC has now fully graduated as a political party . They , too , intend to participate in the next election.
Now tell me this : do you have any opinion about the above groups ; who is doing this to “make money”?
Surely , it can`t be just one Kyagulanyi or is it !
By the way the President is from a very poor family. Do you know at what age he put on his very first pair of shoes and who donated it? The Judges, MPs etc. the country is rotten because of bribes and he goes on about Bobi. Politicians are crossing to NRM why cos of money and they are more than ready to sell their families and souls.
I must say that I agree with you. People have a history from which they should or can be judged. I do not think , not even for a second , that Mr.Kyagulanyi needs to do what he is now doing merely for money. On the contrary , he comes with a history of making more money as a performer than he makes as a head of political party that is over burdened by lots of financial obligations looking after orphans , widows , detainees , sick supporters , funerals etc. As a young artists , he was able to build his own beautiful house , acquire various property etc; as a leader , he has built a two Head Premises for his party, unlike NRM that is still renting after 40 years in power.
Yes ,Mr. Kyagulanyi , just like Dr.Besigye , Gen. Muntu , Lord Major Lukwago and many many other leaders from the opposion can be blamed for other idiological , or operational faults , but to zero in on them and accuse them of doing this for money is illogical , unless there are other motivations behind the allegations.
Boss. This thing of Money from Museveni is a very big lie.Imagine
If these guys were really enticed by money just calculate, NUP, FDC, UPC,etc for instance each party has 3,000,000 supporters and each supporter contributes 5000/= to the party, they get 15,000,000,000/=
How much does Museveni “give”, each party, can he match this figure ?
Of course not.
If people want money, they can get it from the population.
If someone is rotten, he is rotten, Museveni and “his money” has nothing to do with it.
If Mr. Mpuuga wanted 2,000,000,000/= as “service award”, as the NUP president of Buganda region, if he had mobilised each supporter to send him, 2000/= from Buganda region with 1,000,000 people who say “they do not want Museveni”, he would have got it in cash in a month.
I like figures, they do not lie. I am not implying Mr. Mpuuga is rotten, I am just rubbishing claims that Mr. Museveni has a lot of money to give out, if he did, Mbarara would not look like that…
Or maybe NUP and other opposition parties cannot mobilise such support.
If they cannot, they are clowns wasting Ugandans’ time.
Please let us stop lying to people…money is not the issue or “Museveni’s money”, Mr. Nobert Mao for all his faults hinted at it…
It is not his money. it is mine yours and all the tax payers. have you ever heard him selling off some of his cows to dish out money. If it was his, I am sure he would not be so generous. Please Mr ME do not fool yourself.
me, I really don’t know where you’re getting your figures from. We’re talking about taxpayers money which pays our so called political leaders. In our parliament alone, we have over 500 useless MPs who are paid handsomely to pass oppressive laws. The lowest paid MP gets about Sh. 20m a month. On the other hand, our infrastructure ranks as one of the worst in the world. If you were to use only half, 20m X 250 MPs = 5000bn, which could build a state of the art hospital in each and every region if that money was saved each month. I’m talking about those are substantive figures, not made up figures from nowhere.
You cannot remove parliament. It would be safer to poison all the water in Uganda and exterminate all people in the geographical space called Uganda. If there are people, there is a parliament…the problem with Ugandans is you think you can do big things when you have failed to do small things…a man cannot allow you to marry his house girl then you ask for his wife or his mother…you have failed to organize yourselves at the grass root/ village level and now you want to make decisions at the national level ?
Let us assume the money has been confiscated by Museveni, how will you get it from him ? by talking ? Or writing very good English ? I do not think so…
If none of us wants violence( my assumption). The alternative would be to fundraise to support our leaders so that they do not become compromised…
If we cannot even fundraise 2000/= from 1,000,000 so called supporters to fight the excuse of “Museveni’s money” then bring a beer and a kilo of pork at Nicodemus pork joint then tell me about “opposition “…while I assent with pork and beer in me…
Tuve mu kwelimba.
Jes, I “connect Kyagulanyi to everything because Kyagulanyi joined politics to make money. Kyagulanyi clearly told us that there’s democracy in Uganda and he is determined to show us that it works!
Jes, is that true that we have democracy in Uganda? Clearly, Kyagulanyi is deceitful in order to keep the nation hooked on bogus and violent elections in the name of democracy which we don’t have. Mbu, “get IDs, go and vote and leave the rest to me.” Mbu, “People power, our power.” Really?
Sir , you`ve just answered my question; not by what you said , but what you did not say.
I notice that ignored all the other names I mentioned .
May I ask why ?
Also , I am curious about your saurce of information .
You alone seem to know more about Kyagulanyi than every Ugandan. How do you do it ?
Jes, I don’t need to mention other name. Currenty M7 is the elected president of Uganda. So, the back stops at him. You, NUP, say that the one who won is not the president, why? So, Kyagulanyi is the leading opposition figure, but above all, he claims that there’s democracy in Uganda and he is determined to show us that democracy works. That’s why I ignore all other names and concentrate on Kyagulanyi. Just like the CBS ad. Nzijira mu lediyo endala zona, oleke mu CBS yoka.
Remase you have a point. Technically in a democratic election such gerrymandering as an electoral malpractice blacklists the NUP culprit Mr Elias Nalukoola not to continue to participate in democratic national elections for 5 years! For Faridah Nambi Kigongo, she has all the opportunity to continue to participate in such dodgy national elections. Even the honourable judge is not convinced that there was blatant police and army violence and exchanging of lots of money all over the place, that was initiated by the sitting government of NRM. The national press was dismissed from the electoral process that was going badly at Kawempe. There were votes that were neglected to be counted. At Namere town village a house was discovered where vote stuffing was being done. A sitting government is supposed to organise democratic elections that are peaceful, free of gerrymandering, and free and fair. That is why the Buganda Kingdom state cannot continue to respect and participate in such rigged and biased national elections. The democratic sovereignty of the Ancient African Kingdom state of Buganda is indeed compromised if it participates in such electoral malpractices. The NRM political multiparty establishment have all the opportunities to continue their electioneering in the rest of the regions of Uganda!
Kabayekka, political parties are built on an ideology. So, what is the ideology of each and every political party in Uganda? I don’t really have the exact count of political parties we have, however, what is clear is that we have over 500 MPs and NRM has about 400 or more MPs. Does that reflect that the majority of Ugandans subscribe to NRM political ideology? Recently, M7 and Janet M7 have come out and apologise to the nation, especially the Buganda region, for the misrule, which revolves around violence and corruption, which is the NRM political ideology. So, if it’s not making money, what is the political ideology of the opposition parties? What unites all them [NRM and opposition] is the ideology of making money. Period.
Kabayeka , can you show me the point that you see.
The ruling does not include all the things you say. You seem to equate gerrymandering with electoral malpractice , then rule that Nalukoola is guilty and should forfeit his right to stand again. If that is the law , then Mr. Namanya missed that ; he is the one who should be disqualified as a jugde.
I have read the ruling . Nowhere did I see that it was based on the violence , ballot box stuffing ; I see nothing´about the dismissal of the press or the “lots of money” exchanging hands etc etc….I can´t even figure out how Kyagulanyi /NUP become the masters of the game . Am I missing something here ?
Instead , I see the clever Judge gving only two reasons:
1- those who did not cast their vote must have been disenfrachised ( by Nalukoola?!)
2-Nalukoola campaigned when he said one sentence on polling day.
Where is the EC in this ?
In that case Nambi should also be disqualified and all those took part.
Surprising that the judge noted ,16,640 voters were disenfranchised in an election where the turnout was 18%- it would be 2995 votes. Even if all were added to Nambi, she wouldn’t win!
Mr. Namanya, you’re shaming our names … please let’s know how you’ve speedily come to the conclusion of disenfranchised voters that significantly shifts into the favor of a hapless opposition amidst a broad day heavy deployment of the UPDF army and riot police all guarding the ruling party candidate while harassing both the opposition supporters and the non-partisan journalists. How do you come to this measure of disenfranchisement?
Have you also considered that, despite all parameters against, that the hapless won? Even with lots of cash flying between hands via the cash-rich ruling party, still the opposition won. Did you consider these matters or was it a rushed, if not coerced decision that, no wonder, rhat was issued via email?
Have you also considered the consequence of this ruling on our national resources whereas the country is grappling with ever growing national debts and underfunded key sectors?
Have you also sung out justice for the victims of torture at the hands of the supposed petitioner using state owned machinery unleashed on the citizens in opposition and on the journalists?
Hopefully you’re receiving a pat on the back and ready for promotion for your contribution towards a divided and therefore fallen Uganda.
Jes you have a point indeed. Much of the malpractices of an African national election are there in NRM government organised national elections for the country of Uganda. That is since Dr Besigye and Ssemogerere embarked on removing dictator M7 by one adult one vote. NUP which has just arrived on the political scene is only wasting the NRM cadre Courts’ time! Plus the tax payers’ money!
Eh , what can I say !
You said it yourself. Only that you forgot that its not only NUP that is wasting time. Cadre courts are busy.
Jes, I don’t need to mention other name. Currenty M7 is the elected president of Uganda. So, the back stops at him. You, NUP, say that the one who won is not the president, why? So, Kyagulanyi is the leading opposition figure, but above all, he claims that there’s democracy in Uganda and he is determined to show us that democracy works. That’s why I ignore all other names and concentrate on Kyagulanyi. Just like the CBS ad. Nzijira mu lediyo endala zona, oleke mu CBS yoka.
I hear you Sir. You have said your truth , which is :”Currently M7 is the elected president of Uganda”.. ” I ignore all other names and concentrate on Kyagulanyi ” Wow, that is an honest answer that explains a lot !
Man , you really know things that many Ugandans don´t ( are you friends with Andrew Mwenda) ?
BTW: you won`t find ME saying that “the one who won is not the president”. I only hear others saying it , then I get curious.
Personally , I just do not know who wins a presidential election in Uganda; all I know is that our Presidents select themselves and stay presidents by ( tribal) military suppression and opression. Currently , Mr.Museveni is the military ruler of Uganda, who according to me , does not need to win an election to be whatever he wants to be.
If I believe , (just like you seem to) that these are nothing but violent and sham “elections ” it would a great contradiction to turn around and and say that such “elections”have produced an elected winner.
Unlike you , I pass on awarding the title of the “Currently elected President”
I think we have narrowed down the gap.