By John Odyek

THE Electoral commission (EC) has said prisoners, the bedridden in hospitals and security personnel will not be eligible to vote in next year’s general elections because there is no legal framework to cater for them as special categories.

Addressing a press conference at the commission’s head office in Kampala on Friday, EC chairman Dr. Badru Kiggundu said there would be no polling stations at prisons.

“We have not gazetted any polling stations within prisons. We don’t have a law to take prisoners out, the technicality of how to bring them out is not there.

Even people in hospitals are locked out of this process.

Security officials, because of their deployment, would be given special days to vote. Our laws are not set out, we are just developing,” Kiggundu said.

He advised public officers, local government officials and employees of government bodies wishing to contest for LC3 and LC5 to resign by the end of this month.

He also said the commission would set new nomination dates for LC3 and LC5 elections as the new Local Government Act has not been assented to.