{UAH} How I moved in all the 3 polling station in Osia parish and found my name was not in any of the polling stations

MY STORY ON THE 2016 ELECTION(By Denis Katusabe)

(How I moved in all the 3 polling station in Osia parish and found my name was not in any of the polling stations)
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In 2014 the government of Uganda rolled out the national ID project where citizens above the age of 16 were registered (based on the fact or assumption that by 2016 they will be 18 which is the constitutional legible age of voting).

It was widely publicised that this data is the one which will be used to compile the national voters register. I complied and registered for the for the ID.
Initially we were told that without the national ID one would not be able to vote, later that was clarified and we were told that for as long as your name is in the voters register (which was complied using the data from ID priject) you will be legible to vote.
I registered from kamwenge district but my preferred polling station was Kagwara C.O.U. I went several times to get my ID in vain,whenever I could go they (EC staff in kamwenge) could tell me it's not yet out but they could give me assurance that I will be able to vote with or without it, this was after me telling them that they shouldn't deny me my opportunity of voting.

16th February reached and I didn't have my ID yet. I asked the staff in EC office in kamwenge on how I can verify my polling station before I travel to Tororo to vote. I was told I can use the serial number in my ID registration form. When I went back home I did that and the result was that my polling station is Osia primary school. I travelled to Tororo after that confirmation about 600 KM from Kamwenge.

When I reached Tororo on 17th of February I had a chat with my long time village-mate and we started discusing politics as usual,when I told him about my polling station he informed me that Osia primary school polling station no longer exists. The polling station was devided into two one was Osia worship centre (about 300 metres from my home) and Kagwara C.O.U (my preferred polling station). He further went ahead and told me that this was after the split of osia village into 3 different zones. So the data for people in my zone was transfered to osia worship centre and he advices me to go to the later polling station and check if my name is there.
On 18th I was one of the first people to reach the polling station, the voting materials came at around 09:45 AM and I was the first in the queue. Voting began and my name was not in the register I was asked to try Kagwara C.O.U polling station. I immediately jumped on a boda and there I was. The queue was very long so I went straight to the police officer guarding the station and explained to him my fate after which I asked him to allow me talk to one of the agents to check my name. He gave me a green light. I checked my name and it was nowhere to be seen.

I decided to jump on boda to Abur project polling station which I voted in in 2011 elections. When I was there I also talked to the policeman and checked my name in vain. Time check 1:15.

At this stage I started sweating from all pours of my body. I only had this chance to make a political statement (which comes after 5years) and my chance were narrowing each and every second that clocks. I had nothing to do but to boil internally, the fact is that I was put in a GHOST POLLING STATION. I had no any other option but to travel back to Kanwenge, both money and time I sacrificed for the betterment of my country was in vain, my vote died.

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"War is nothing but a  continuation of political intercourse, with a mixture of other means. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." 

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