Wakiso district receives election materials

Wakiso district returning officer Sarah Bukira has requested voters in the district to show up in large numbers on all designated election days and vote for leaders of their choice.

Addressing journalists at Wakiso electoral commission offices in Wakiso town, Bukirwa said all materials to be used in elections like ballot boxes have been delivered at their offices where they will be picked to be taken to different election polls.

Other materials include Biometric Voter Verification System, pens, strings, stamp pads, polythene sheets, rubber bands, ink pad, elections forms, report forms, oaths, official report book, aprons, tamper-proof evident envelopes, indelible mark pens, etc.

"All things to be used in elections are here; they will be picked and taken to different polling station in time. This will help us save time since they are near the polling station." Bukirwa said.

She added that Wakiso district has 1359 polling stations adding that they have employed 179 officers to attend to them.

She further urged voters to keep order at polling stations and requested them to safe guard their votes until they are counted to avoid complaints later.

Wakiso District Police Commander (DPC) Benard Katwalo has said that police has already deployed officers including crime preventers at all polling stations in the district to keep law and order.

Katwalo requested voters not to disrupt peace at polling stations and also not to see other people with different political views as enemies and said after elections, they will have to deal together in different things as it was before elections.