Daily Monitor
Tuesday January 12 2021
The charade of this week’s so-called election, whose official result we already know, should not distract us from one obvious reality. At 77, Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni will soon yield to biology and a need for long-deserved retirement.
As usual, the ruling regime has employed violence, death, arrests and other forms of harassment against legitimate opponents. Silencing the Opposition has been the central drive in the motions of make-believe democratisation.
To the extent that the ruler’s armed operatives have hobbled the efforts of his opponents, the regime has been very successful in implementing their mockery of democracy.
Daily Monitor
Sunday January 10 2021
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The week of reckoning is here. In four days, Ugandans go to polls to decide whether they want change or more of the same, as former prime minister Amama Mbabazi would say.
For those who need reminders on who the candidates are because they have been dwelling too much on who is flying their family out, we have a cocktail of nine men and one woman trying to remove a seemingly nailed-to-the-seat incumbent Yoweri Museveni.
They are Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, of the National Unity Platform, Patrick Amuriat of the Forum for Democratic Change, Norbert Mao of Democratic Party and Gen Mugisha Muntu of the Alliance for National Transformation.
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January 7, 2021 Electoral Commission (EC) dispatching polling materials
After casting their ballots, voters will not be allowed to witness the vote counting at polling stations, the Electoral Commission has announced. Uganda goes to polls next week on January 14 to elect the president (11 candidates) and members of parliament.
According to the Electoral Commission chairperson Simon Byabakama, only a few people like agents of candidates, EC officials and security personnel will be allowed at the polling stations during the vote counting process so as to observe the coronavirus Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs). Byabakama made the remarks at a ceremony to dispatch polling materials.
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