EC warns against politicking
Jul 07, 2005
The chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Eng. Badru Kiggundu, has warned politicians against soliciting for votes and declaring their candidature for the 2006 elections.
By Eddie Ssejjoba
The chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Eng. Badru Kiggundu, has warned politicians against soliciting for votes and declaring their candidature for the 2006 elections.
He said the EC would use the long arm of the law to apprehend such politicians whom he said were confusing people and diverting them from the referendum, which is the main issue on the election agenda.Â
Kiggundu was on Wednesday addressing journalists at Hotel Brovad in Masaka town at a media seminar on the forthcoming referendum.
He said the EC had not announced that people could stand for any post in the 2006 general elections and politicians who were doing it were breaking the law.
“If we were to use the law we would have arrested many politicians by now because we have been hearing them declaring themselves as candidates and diverting Ugandans from the referendum and causing havoc,†he said.
Kiggundu said the EC would also investigate the issuing out of party cards by different political organisations but said they were not associated with the referendum in anyway.
Journalists complained that some politicians were attaching issuing of party cards to the referendum and telling people that whoever did not possess the cards would not participate in the plebiscite.
“As far as we are concerned, no political organisation was issuing any cards officially and in any case they are not associated with the July 28 referendum,†Kiggundu said.
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The chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Eng. Badru Kiggundu, has warned politicians against soliciting for votes and declaring their candidature for the 2006 elections.
He said the EC would use the long arm of the law to apprehend such politicians whom he said were confusing people and diverting them from the referendum, which is the main issue on the election agenda.Â
Kiggundu was on Wednesday addressing journalists at Hotel Brovad in Masaka town at a media seminar on the forthcoming referendum.
He said the EC had not announced that people could stand for any post in the 2006 general elections and politicians who were doing it were breaking the law.
“If we were to use the law we would have arrested many politicians by now because we have been hearing them declaring themselves as candidates and diverting Ugandans from the referendum and causing havoc,†he said.
Kiggundu said the EC would also investigate the issuing out of party cards by different political organisations but said they were not associated with the referendum in anyway.
Journalists complained that some politicians were attaching issuing of party cards to the referendum and telling people that whoever did not possess the cards would not participate in the plebiscite.
“As far as we are concerned, no political organisation was issuing any cards officially and in any case they are not associated with the July 28 referendum,†Kiggundu said.
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