{UAH} UGANDA GENERAL ELECTIONS - 'RIGGING SECRETS AND VOTE GUARDING'
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UGANDA GENERAL ELECTIONS - 'RIGGING SECRETS AND VOTE GUARDING'
Uganda is headed for another sham general elections that will renew military dictator Museveni's 30 years hold on power. He came to power after a military take over in 1986 and immediately embarked on destroying democratic governance. He banned political parties and instituted a military rule for the first ten years. In 1995 a new constitution was prolagimated and it stipulated two five year terms for an elected president. In 1996 he contestested for the presidency under his regime political suspension and was declared the winner. In 2001 he contested again under the same arrangement and was declared the winner. At the end of his constitutional term lit in 2005 he am ended the constitution by removing the term limits In 2006, political parties were allowed to compete again him and still he was declared the winner.
In 2011 he contested under a sham multiparty arrangement and was declared the winner. He is again seeking to be reelected in February 2016. In all the previous sham elections outlined above, he his so called victory has been delivered through pre-ticked vote stuffing, voter bribery, violence and intimidation by his personal security machinery. His regime party is fused with the state of Uganda and fully comprised of the entire state apparatus like the army, Police, intelligence services, public service, local government structures, judiciary, legislature, Electoral Commission and others. He is in the process of formally incorporating the civil society, religious, and traditional institutions into his regime structures. His constitution gives him powers to appoint, promote, transfer and dismiss any of the public servants thus guaranteeing their personal loyalty. The most recent example is when he sacked his Prime Minister and regime Secretary General Amama babazi over political disagreements rather than improving service delivery.
He has powers of restructuring existing and even creating new local government structures to suit his designs. He creates new districts and constituencies where their is a regime stronghold and leaving intact those that are dominated by the opposition in order to increase the number of Members of Parliament. He retains exclusive powers to determine the geographical distribution of the national cake. He openly tells voters from opposition strongholds that they need to learn to 'vote wisely' if they are to benefit in terms of development. He brutally curtails opposition political activities while he uses state resources to traverse the country in order to promote his candidature. He outrightly bribes votes through cash handouts in proportions of hundreds of millions of tax payer's money. In some cased he makes empty pledges to groups of voters thus the 300 billion shilling State House budget. He denies opposition candidates access to media and coverage while he exclusively enjoys the same to reach the masses. His state funded Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) to curtail through blackmail the privately owned media housed who dare to give access and coverage to the opposition. He exclusively uses security forces, regime cadres and intelligence services to blackmail, intimidate, harass, arrest, detain, and maliciously prosecute all those with dissenting political opinion. The District Commissioner of Lira district has just told WBS TV's Timothy Ssebasi that Museveni recently directed them not to teasgass opposition members during their campaign.
State security forces and his regime structures like the Electoral Commission, intelligence services, district Commissiones, regime cadres, local government officials etc help him through intimidation and bribery of voters, opposition polling agents, and pre-ticked ballot peppers. Once the rigging machinery has executed its role at the polling station, sub county, constituency and district, then the regime cadres at the Electoral Commission head office simply do the announcing of Musevenii as the winner. The same race rigging committee (earlier mentioned by Gen. Ssejusa) also determines who is to win and by how much among the opposition contenders at the constituency and local government levels. Its only in a few isolated cases that the opposition can determine the victory of its candidates. Kampala city Mayor won after a repeat of the previously rigged elections after the rigging machinery was overwhelmed by the opposition supporters and vote guarding but still Museveni refused him access to the Mayor's office. Courts of law gave an order for his reinstatement but the regime simply ignored it. Currently, a law is being formulated that will see the Mayor of Kampala city being selected instead of being democratically elected through adult suffrage. This is because Kampala City is a strong opposition candidate who should be penalised by disfranchisement. Even where the opposition has won in parliamentary by-elections, its because opposition bigwigs have come out to monitor the polls and guard the votes thus the rigging machine could neither intimidate nor bribe them. Museveni personally handles the sounding of war drums threatening voters with return to war if he is not elected back into office. In forthcoming general elections, he has already sounded the warning when he recently publicly stated that unless Ugandans 'voted wisely', the country risks returning to war.
The above are the rigging methods that Museveni has always been using and are well known to every Ugandan and those outside Uganda who care to know. For the February 2016 general elections, the rigging started immediately after the last elections in 2011, is continuing and will culminate into Museveni being announced the winner in February 2016. Unlike the previous elections, this time round even the voter's register was prepared by the army through the National ID security project. However, some sections of the opposition are telling voters that this time 'its not business as usual'. They are encouraging their supporters not to leave the polling station after they will have cast their vote in February 2016 in order to guard the vote. Some other opposition leaders who have fallen out with Museveni have been described as the ones who know the tactics that the regime has been using to rig the elections. The truth is that there are secret tactics that the regime uses to rig the elections other than what has been outlined above. What is not publicly known is the company that prints the dextral ballot papers that are then pre-ticked and stuffed into ballot boxes.
During the February 2016 general elections the regime will issue a decree on the eve of the polling day to the effect that its illegal for anyone to stay around the polling station after casting his/her vote and will be required to keep in their homes. There will be a heavy deployment of security forces on every inch of the country. This time the force has been boosted by tens of thousands of regime militias referred to as Crime Preventers. The opposition polling agents will be intimidated and in some cases outrightly bribed into giving in to the regime's schemes while the sturbon ones will either be framed and arrested or kidnapped. The opposition tally centre will be electronically monitored and eventually raises and personnel and equipment dispersed. Both the last minute decree and the dismantling of the vote tally centre will deal a finally blow to the opposition. Museveni will then be announced as the winner as the opposition will be crying foul while the international community will commend Uganda for holding a peaceful election exercise. Therefore, the February 2016 general elections will be "AS IT WAS, IT IS STILL THE SAME, AND IT SHALL BE SO".
INFORMATION IS POWER
Posted by Uganda - A Change of Guards! a
In 2011 he contested under a sham multiparty arrangement and was declared the winner. He is again seeking to be reelected in February 2016. In all the previous sham elections outlined above, he his so called victory has been delivered through pre-ticked vote stuffing, voter bribery, violence and intimidation by his personal security machinery. His regime party is fused with the state of Uganda and fully comprised of the entire state apparatus like the army, Police, intelligence services, public service, local government structures, judiciary, legislature, Electoral Commission and others. He is in the process of formally incorporating the civil society, religious, and traditional institutions into his regime structures. His constitution gives him powers to appoint, promote, transfer and dismiss any of the public servants thus guaranteeing their personal loyalty. The most recent example is when he sacked his Prime Minister and regime Secretary General Amama babazi over political disagreements rather than improving service delivery.
He has powers of restructuring existing and even creating new local government structures to suit his designs. He creates new districts and constituencies where their is a regime stronghold and leaving intact those that are dominated by the opposition in order to increase the number of Members of Parliament. He retains exclusive powers to determine the geographical distribution of the national cake. He openly tells voters from opposition strongholds that they need to learn to 'vote wisely' if they are to benefit in terms of development. He brutally curtails opposition political activities while he uses state resources to traverse the country in order to promote his candidature. He outrightly bribes votes through cash handouts in proportions of hundreds of millions of tax payer's money. In some cased he makes empty pledges to groups of voters thus the 300 billion shilling State House budget. He denies opposition candidates access to media and coverage while he exclusively enjoys the same to reach the masses. His state funded Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) to curtail through blackmail the privately owned media housed who dare to give access and coverage to the opposition. He exclusively uses security forces, regime cadres and intelligence services to blackmail, intimidate, harass, arrest, detain, and maliciously prosecute all those with dissenting political opinion. The District Commissioner of Lira district has just told WBS TV's Timothy Ssebasi that Museveni recently directed them not to teasgass opposition members during their campaign.
State security forces and his regime structures like the Electoral Commission, intelligence services, district Commissiones, regime cadres, local government officials etc help him through intimidation and bribery of voters, opposition polling agents, and pre-ticked ballot peppers. Once the rigging machinery has executed its role at the polling station, sub county, constituency and district, then the regime cadres at the Electoral Commission head office simply do the announcing of Musevenii as the winner. The same race rigging committee (earlier mentioned by Gen. Ssejusa) also determines who is to win and by how much among the opposition contenders at the constituency and local government levels. Its only in a few isolated cases that the opposition can determine the victory of its candidates. Kampala city Mayor won after a repeat of the previously rigged elections after the rigging machinery was overwhelmed by the opposition supporters and vote guarding but still Museveni refused him access to the Mayor's office. Courts of law gave an order for his reinstatement but the regime simply ignored it. Currently, a law is being formulated that will see the Mayor of Kampala city being selected instead of being democratically elected through adult suffrage. This is because Kampala City is a strong opposition candidate who should be penalised by disfranchisement. Even where the opposition has won in parliamentary by-elections, its because opposition bigwigs have come out to monitor the polls and guard the votes thus the rigging machine could neither intimidate nor bribe them. Museveni personally handles the sounding of war drums threatening voters with return to war if he is not elected back into office. In forthcoming general elections, he has already sounded the warning when he recently publicly stated that unless Ugandans 'voted wisely', the country risks returning to war.
The above are the rigging methods that Museveni has always been using and are well known to every Ugandan and those outside Uganda who care to know. For the February 2016 general elections, the rigging started immediately after the last elections in 2011, is continuing and will culminate into Museveni being announced the winner in February 2016. Unlike the previous elections, this time round even the voter's register was prepared by the army through the National ID security project. However, some sections of the opposition are telling voters that this time 'its not business as usual'. They are encouraging their supporters not to leave the polling station after they will have cast their vote in February 2016 in order to guard the vote. Some other opposition leaders who have fallen out with Museveni have been described as the ones who know the tactics that the regime has been using to rig the elections. The truth is that there are secret tactics that the regime uses to rig the elections other than what has been outlined above. What is not publicly known is the company that prints the dextral ballot papers that are then pre-ticked and stuffed into ballot boxes.
During the February 2016 general elections the regime will issue a decree on the eve of the polling day to the effect that its illegal for anyone to stay around the polling station after casting his/her vote and will be required to keep in their homes. There will be a heavy deployment of security forces on every inch of the country. This time the force has been boosted by tens of thousands of regime militias referred to as Crime Preventers. The opposition polling agents will be intimidated and in some cases outrightly bribed into giving in to the regime's schemes while the sturbon ones will either be framed and arrested or kidnapped. The opposition tally centre will be electronically monitored and eventually raises and personnel and equipment dispersed. Both the last minute decree and the dismantling of the vote tally centre will deal a finally blow to the opposition. Museveni will then be announced as the winner as the opposition will be crying foul while the international community will commend Uganda for holding a peaceful election exercise. Therefore, the February 2016 general elections will be "AS IT WAS, IT IS STILL THE SAME, AND IT SHALL BE SO".
INFORMATION IS POWER
Posted by Uganda - A Change of Guards! a
Viele GruBe
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