Booted Singh petitions Supreme Court

By Vision Reporter

NRM’s Singh Kantongole said on Monday, he was set to petition the Supreme Court over last week’s Court of Appeal ruling which threw him out of Parliament.

The court of appeal on Thursday upheld a High Court ruling that nullified his election as an MP and declared DP’s Moses Kasibante as the rightful MP for Rubaga north.

Singh has however insisted that its his constitutional right to appeal the verdict which he says was unfair to him and to those who voted for him.

The High Court ordered Singh to vacate the Parliamentary seat for Moses Kasibante who it ruled was the duly elected MP for Rubaga North.

The Court ruled that the purported vote recount which reversed Kasibante's victory was done illegally under suspicious circumstances.

Kasibante was declared winner of the Rubaga North poll on February 20, 2011 by the Electoral Commission with 24,054, against Katongole's 18,595 votes. Seven other candidates took part in the race.

However, after the disputed recount ordered by then Mengo Chief Magistrate Phillip Odochi, the result was reversed giving Singh victory with 24,802 votes, and Kasibante second with 22,850 votes.  Following this, Kasibante successfully petitioned the High Court to declare the recount and its results illegal.