Hiking nominations fees is in bad faith - Lulume

By Julius Adiga

BUIKWE South MP Michael Lulume Bayiga has expressed his disappointment at Members of Parliament for increasing nomination fees for parliamentary candidates from sh200,000 to sh3m saying it was done in bad faith.

He told journalists at parliament that, the reason MPs especially from the ruling NRM party endorsed the high charge on candidates is to frustrate the poor political parties from fronting candidates to participate in the elections.

“Some people have been in government for 30 years like Amama Mbabazi and his TDA group so they have the money and can successfully run campaigns. We call upon parliament to pass laws which are fair,” he said.

He said such amount to too much for political parties like Democratic Party to pay and therefore many of its members were going to be eliminated from contesting in the elections since they cannot afford.

Parliament this week approved raising the nomination fee for parliamentary candidates and also changed the electoral law, stopping the government from financing presidential candidates.

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