Iganga NRM registrar remanded over forgery charges

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IGANGA

The Iganga chief magistrate, Daniel Epobu Kiboko, has remanded the Iganga NRM registrar, Yazid Kirunda, to Iganga prison over reported forgery in Kigulu South County NRM election results.

Kirunda has been remanded until Thursday (tomorrow) when the case will come up for determination of his bail application.

According to the charge sheet, Kirunda is accused of two counts of tampering with election results and forgery of the declaration form of the hotly concluded elections.

However, the accused denied the charges and his three lawyers, led by Ayub Kyozira, asked the court to grant him bail, citing having family responsibilities and being an obedient party servant.

But the state attorney, Jonathan Tumusiime, asked the magistrate to adjourn the matter to verify surety documents.

The magistrate Kiboko later remanded Kirunda to Iganga prison until tomorrow when he will determine the bail application.

Kirunda was arrested after he declared Patrick Kayemba, the former Iganga district chairperson, despite unsolved results at some polling stations where the competitors failed to agree upon.

He had paused to declare the winner in the tally centre and promised to conduct fresh elections on the contested areas, but he later declared Kayemba the winner without the knowledge of his counterparts, mainly Abdrahman Sebukaire Kyangha and Yusuf Kyafu Ntulume.

Ntulume and Kyangha both claim to have won the elections and have since filed petitions to the NRM secretariat over the matter.

Meanwhile, the incumbent Milton Muwuma also expressed dissatisfaction over election irregularities but said that he will stand as an independent candidate without petitioning, citing voters being the final court.