{UAH} MUSEVENI'S RIGGING SCHEME PARTIALLY EXPOSED
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MUSEVENI'S RIGGING SCHEME PARTIALLY EXPOSED
Ugandans will go to the polls in February 2016 not for elections but to formalise Dictator Museveni's hold on power for the 7th five year term (35 years). Having come to power in 1986 through a military takeover, in 2005 he amended the constitution to remove the two five years term limit. That way he set on a journey to the life presidency while preparing his son who is now the head of the elite Special Forces to take over from him. At every ceremonial election exercise, he has always outright briber and intimidation of voters and opposition polling agents, vote stuffing courtesy of his Electoral Commission.
This time round he has planned to rig by among other tactics, denying a big number of Ugandans their right to vote by deliberately eliminating their names from the so called voters register. He tasked the intelligence services to hastily come up with a national ID project for purposes of intelligence gathering and monitoring. His former defacto Vice President Gen. Around coordinated the Task Force that was comprised of among others Col. Kwiringira of ISO and Ltcol. Mwesigwa of CMI. Since it was a security project, the scheme captured data of Ugandans from the age of 16 and above because at 16 one can engage in armed rebellion. Among the data captured was where the applicant wished to cast his/ her vote from. It is this data that was adopted by Museveni's Electoral Commission to be used as the national voters register thus discarding the 2011 register of 11 million voters to the one of 2016 with 15 million voters. As part of the wider agitation for electoral reforms by civil society groups, the opposition and the general public, the calls for abandonment of the scheme fell on deaf ears. As usual, Ugandandan ceased fire and took the matter as business as usual. Moreover, Ugandans had not been told that the National ID register would be adopted by the Electoral Commission as its election register thus a good number of Ugandans had not registered for the laborious national ID. The Electoral Commission later declared that only those on the national ID register and in poses soon of the ID would be eligible to vote in the February 2016 polls. Museveni thumped his chest for this partial success but it was too early.
The EC recently declared that an unspecified number of Ugandans will miss the voting because they missed the national ID registration yet its only about 8 million Ugandans who have so far picked the national IDs. Museveni who all along knew that at an appropriate stage would be able to deny a good number of Ugandans a chance to vote thus neutralising opposition supporters and minimising the number of Ugandans to be bribed by his rigging machinery. However, the cat was let out of the bag last week when Norbert Mao, the DP President, former MP, former Chairman of Gulu district and a one time presidential aspirant who posesses the disbanded voters card that he used in the previous elections, was denied nomination for contesting for MP position on grounds that he had not registered for thennational ID. He had pleaded with the EC for late registration on grounds that at the time he had been sick but in vain. He has now petitioned the EC and issued a 24 hours ultimatum or else he seeks legal redress
The development has sent the regime panicking because public debates are exposing other flaws of the entire registration exercise more especially the deliberate registration of non Ugandans while nationals are being denied their right to vote. The army's 4th Division Sokesman Lt. Ronald Ovon confirmed that 3000 soldiers who recently returned from South Sudan are being being registered under a special arrangement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Ministry of Internal Affairs Spokesperson Pamenda Ankunda expressed ignorance of the development. Her namesake (by design) Ltcol Paddy Ankunda the Ministry of Defense Spokesperson claimed that they are still consulting with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Lt. Ronald Avon must be undergoing serious reprimand for releasing 'state secrets' to unauthorised people the same way the Senior Nursing Officer of Abim Hospital is being reprimanded for conducting the opposition leader on a tour of the poor state of the facility. The EC has stood its ground arguing that: "the voters register update exercise was concluded. There is no way the names can be reflected; not at all" said the EC Spokesperson. Military personnel have been a vital tool of the the regime's double and multiple voting thus it can't risk losing their votes. The current military build up in northern Uganda ostensibly to counter their South Sudan counterparts could be a ploy in that direction.
For Norbert Mao his woes emanate from the time he threatened to spearhead the secession of northern Uganda. On top of his support for the opposition presidential aspirant A mama Mbabazi, it is the former threat that will lead him 'six feet down'. Therefore, the EC will as usual get its way out of the current dilemma and Mao may or may not be registed but if there is hope that the fraudulent voters register can be discarded, there is no way because it amounts to treason. Already the regime is secretly registering the voters who are on the national ID register so that it avoids bribing unekigible voters. Even if he goes to court, the matter will be disposed off after the ballots will have been printed out already. This rigging scheme by way of voters register is just a small portion of the wider rigging scheme. This is the 'good work' that Gen Around a did for his country and for which the country mourned greatly upon his demise a few months ago. Norbert Mao in particular mourned him by describing him as a patriot. Ugandans are yet to know why Museveni seconded Gen. Aronda to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Gen. Aronda's legacy will have a lasting impact the same way did UPC's Luwuliza Kirunda.
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This time round he has planned to rig by among other tactics, denying a big number of Ugandans their right to vote by deliberately eliminating their names from the so called voters register. He tasked the intelligence services to hastily come up with a national ID project for purposes of intelligence gathering and monitoring. His former defacto Vice President Gen. Around coordinated the Task Force that was comprised of among others Col. Kwiringira of ISO and Ltcol. Mwesigwa of CMI. Since it was a security project, the scheme captured data of Ugandans from the age of 16 and above because at 16 one can engage in armed rebellion. Among the data captured was where the applicant wished to cast his/ her vote from. It is this data that was adopted by Museveni's Electoral Commission to be used as the national voters register thus discarding the 2011 register of 11 million voters to the one of 2016 with 15 million voters. As part of the wider agitation for electoral reforms by civil society groups, the opposition and the general public, the calls for abandonment of the scheme fell on deaf ears. As usual, Ugandandan ceased fire and took the matter as business as usual. Moreover, Ugandans had not been told that the National ID register would be adopted by the Electoral Commission as its election register thus a good number of Ugandans had not registered for the laborious national ID. The Electoral Commission later declared that only those on the national ID register and in poses soon of the ID would be eligible to vote in the February 2016 polls. Museveni thumped his chest for this partial success but it was too early.
The EC recently declared that an unspecified number of Ugandans will miss the voting because they missed the national ID registration yet its only about 8 million Ugandans who have so far picked the national IDs. Museveni who all along knew that at an appropriate stage would be able to deny a good number of Ugandans a chance to vote thus neutralising opposition supporters and minimising the number of Ugandans to be bribed by his rigging machinery. However, the cat was let out of the bag last week when Norbert Mao, the DP President, former MP, former Chairman of Gulu district and a one time presidential aspirant who posesses the disbanded voters card that he used in the previous elections, was denied nomination for contesting for MP position on grounds that he had not registered for thennational ID. He had pleaded with the EC for late registration on grounds that at the time he had been sick but in vain. He has now petitioned the EC and issued a 24 hours ultimatum or else he seeks legal redress
The development has sent the regime panicking because public debates are exposing other flaws of the entire registration exercise more especially the deliberate registration of non Ugandans while nationals are being denied their right to vote. The army's 4th Division Sokesman Lt. Ronald Ovon confirmed that 3000 soldiers who recently returned from South Sudan are being being registered under a special arrangement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Ministry of Internal Affairs Spokesperson Pamenda Ankunda expressed ignorance of the development. Her namesake (by design) Ltcol Paddy Ankunda the Ministry of Defense Spokesperson claimed that they are still consulting with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Lt. Ronald Avon must be undergoing serious reprimand for releasing 'state secrets' to unauthorised people the same way the Senior Nursing Officer of Abim Hospital is being reprimanded for conducting the opposition leader on a tour of the poor state of the facility. The EC has stood its ground arguing that: "the voters register update exercise was concluded. There is no way the names can be reflected; not at all" said the EC Spokesperson. Military personnel have been a vital tool of the the regime's double and multiple voting thus it can't risk losing their votes. The current military build up in northern Uganda ostensibly to counter their South Sudan counterparts could be a ploy in that direction.
For Norbert Mao his woes emanate from the time he threatened to spearhead the secession of northern Uganda. On top of his support for the opposition presidential aspirant A mama Mbabazi, it is the former threat that will lead him 'six feet down'. Therefore, the EC will as usual get its way out of the current dilemma and Mao may or may not be registed but if there is hope that the fraudulent voters register can be discarded, there is no way because it amounts to treason. Already the regime is secretly registering the voters who are on the national ID register so that it avoids bribing unekigible voters. Even if he goes to court, the matter will be disposed off after the ballots will have been printed out already. This rigging scheme by way of voters register is just a small portion of the wider rigging scheme. This is the 'good work' that Gen Around a did for his country and for which the country mourned greatly upon his demise a few months ago. Norbert Mao in particular mourned him by describing him as a patriot. Ugandans are yet to know why Museveni seconded Gen. Aronda to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Gen. Aronda's legacy will have a lasting impact the same way did UPC's Luwuliza Kirunda.
INFORMATION IS POWER
Posted by Uganda - A Change of Guards! a
Viele GruBe
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