Serere MP Okabe loses seat

PIC: Oust MP Patrick Okabe swearing-in recently

The High Court in Soroti has nullified the election of Serere County MP Patrick Okabe over non-compliance of electoral rules and lack of required academic papers.

Delivering the verdict on Friday, Justice Billy Kainamura, said Okabe used different names on his academic papers during his senior four at Ayer where he was refered as Ocen Oliba Patrick and during nominations used Patrick Okabe.

The mismatch in the names raised suspicion since he did not change the name from Ocen Oliba Patrick to Okabe as required by the law.

The Judge said Electoral Commission disenfranchised Opio, the petitioner and his supporters by not including Opio's name on the ballot paper.

Court ordered Electoral Commission to pay two thirds of costs to Opio while Okabe was ordered to pay one third of cost to Opio.