Nadduli's academic papers challenged
Nov 09, 2010
THE RACE for the Luweero LC5 seat has taken a new twist with the incumbent Chairman, Ronald Ndawula, challenging his rival, Abdul Nadduli's academic qualifications before the Electoral Commission.
Frederick Kiwanuka
THE RACE for the Luweero LC5 seat has taken a new twist with the incumbent Chairman, Ronald Ndawula, challenging his rival, Abdul Nadduli's academic qualifications before the Electoral Commission.
In a petition filed on Monday, through his lawyers, Mushabe, Munungu and Company Advocates, Ndawula an independent, is asking the Electoral Commission to invalidate last Week's nomination of his NRM rival, saying that Nadduli lacks the minimum academic qualifications.
Nadduli who was nominated on Thursday to contest in the three-man race , presented a degree in Social Work and Social Administration (SWASA) from Bugema University, and a certificate of completion of formal education of Advanced Level standard, or its equivalent, issued by the National Council for Higher Education on January 13, 2006.
According to a headed letter that was furnished to the NCHE, by the then Acting Academic Registrar of Bugema University, Kate Namirembe on January 18, 2006, Nadduli was admitted for the SWASA course on the strength of :a Diploma in Project Planning and Management from Management and Business Skills Institute ,P.O. Box 913 ,Kampala, and another Diploma in Public Administration from OEGON University in the U.S..
However, Ndawula in his petition contends that the said OEGON University does not exist. Instead there is OREGON University, he says.
"After a due and diligent search, we have established that the University (OEGON) is non-existent and as such, the certificate is a forgery" reads Ndawula's complaint.
Ndawula also contends that the purported Diploma in project planning and management from the Management and Business Institute is a 'nullity' arguing that the said institute does not exist in Uganda.
"The Diploma in Project Planning and Management he purportedly acquired from Management and Business Institute in a nullity as it was awarded by a non-existent institution," Ndawula says.
Attached to the complaint, is an affidavit which was sworn in by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Francis Lubanga while he was alluding to the non -existence of the Institution., on June 30,2006.
Lubanga who was by then testifying in a case against Sembabule woman MP, Hanifa Kawooya, at Masaka court , alluded that the institution, was a'ghost institution' with no physical location and available performance record..
Ndawula in his petition concluded that Nadduli's degree was 'null and void and can not stand' because his admission to Bugema University was 'premised on fake qualifications awarded by fake and non-existent institution
Nadduli, who was Luweero Chairman before Ndawula, was ousted by his rival in 2006, after he was disqualified by the Electoral Commission of academic papers.
THE RACE for the Luweero LC5 seat has taken a new twist with the incumbent Chairman, Ronald Ndawula, challenging his rival, Abdul Nadduli's academic qualifications before the Electoral Commission.
In a petition filed on Monday, through his lawyers, Mushabe, Munungu and Company Advocates, Ndawula an independent, is asking the Electoral Commission to invalidate last Week's nomination of his NRM rival, saying that Nadduli lacks the minimum academic qualifications.
Nadduli who was nominated on Thursday to contest in the three-man race , presented a degree in Social Work and Social Administration (SWASA) from Bugema University, and a certificate of completion of formal education of Advanced Level standard, or its equivalent, issued by the National Council for Higher Education on January 13, 2006.
According to a headed letter that was furnished to the NCHE, by the then Acting Academic Registrar of Bugema University, Kate Namirembe on January 18, 2006, Nadduli was admitted for the SWASA course on the strength of :a Diploma in Project Planning and Management from Management and Business Skills Institute ,P.O. Box 913 ,Kampala, and another Diploma in Public Administration from OEGON University in the U.S..
However, Ndawula in his petition contends that the said OEGON University does not exist. Instead there is OREGON University, he says.
"After a due and diligent search, we have established that the University (OEGON) is non-existent and as such, the certificate is a forgery" reads Ndawula's complaint.
Ndawula also contends that the purported Diploma in project planning and management from the Management and Business Institute is a 'nullity' arguing that the said institute does not exist in Uganda.
"The Diploma in Project Planning and Management he purportedly acquired from Management and Business Institute in a nullity as it was awarded by a non-existent institution," Ndawula says.
Attached to the complaint, is an affidavit which was sworn in by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Francis Lubanga while he was alluding to the non -existence of the Institution., on June 30,2006.
Lubanga who was by then testifying in a case against Sembabule woman MP, Hanifa Kawooya, at Masaka court , alluded that the institution, was a'ghost institution' with no physical location and available performance record..
Ndawula in his petition concluded that Nadduli's degree was 'null and void and can not stand' because his admission to Bugema University was 'premised on fake qualifications awarded by fake and non-existent institution
Nadduli, who was Luweero Chairman before Ndawula, was ousted by his rival in 2006, after he was disqualified by the Electoral Commission of academic papers.