Daily Monitor
Friday January 15 2021
Journalists flee from teargas as they covered campaigns in Kampala on October 23. On several occasions, journalists were targeted as security clashed with presidential candidates and their supporters. PHOTO / ABUBAKER LUBOWA
Summary
From being jailed to getting teargassed,
Daily Monitor reporters saw it all as they covered presidential candidates who have traversed the country for votes over the last two months.
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My arrest was the turning point“My arrest on December 30 in Kalangala District proved to me the saying that a dead journalist cannot tell a story. It was sad seeing my story being told by someone else even after I had followed up the details for more than 11 hours. That was my worst experience on the campaign trail with National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine.
The race remains tight and too early to call with about 34, 354 polling stations left but Bobi Wine Thursday hinted on possibility of rejecting results
Daily Monitor
Friday January 15 2021
NRM presidential candidate and incumbent president Yoweri Museveni casts his ballot at Kaaro high-school polling station in Rushere on January 14, 2021 .PHOTO/KELVIN ATUHAIRE
Summary
The Electoral Commission (EC) is now tasked by the constitution to declare final results within 48 hours after closure of polls.
The next instalment of results declaration by the Electoral Commission will be January 15, at 9:00pm(Local EAT).
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Polls opened and ended Thursday, paving way for a rather delayed vote counting exercise in Uganda’s hotly contested election as the country climaxes a deadly election that has so far claimed over 50 people in poll-related violence.
Daily Monitor
Friday January 15 2021
A man casts his ballot at a polling station on Luwum Street in Kampala City yesterday. PHOTO / ERIC DOMINIC BUKENYA
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Ugandans yesterday flocked polling stations across the country to elect a president and Members of Parliament amid a total Internet shutdown.
The shutdown, which was ordered by government, crippled access to real time information about the voting process in different parts of the country.
During a press conference on Wednesday, the Electoral Commission (EC) chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama, said the relaying and tallying of results would not be affected by the Internet shut down. He revealed that the commission would use other systems to transmit the results. Efforts to get a clear explanation from the Commission about the said system were futile.