8 NEW VISION, Monday, July 4, 2016 NATIONAL NEWS Court nullifi es FDC win in Kyadondo East elections

By Barbra Kabahumuza, Dorcus the variation of the results, due to the (DR) forms from seven polling stations analysis, the margin between the This prompted him to rule that such Lamwaka and Michael Odeng irregularities, affected the results. in the constituency. winner and the loser in terms of votes circumstances of erroneous entering Kaweesa also ordered EC and Kaweesa also faulted Bukirwa for was lowering by the time MP Kantinti of results on the DR forms made The High Court in Kampala has nullifi ed Wakiso district returning offi cer, Sarah failing to fi le a police report in relation emerged victorious, adding that there it diffi cult to ascertain the winning the election of Forum for Democratic Bukirwa, to pay the costs of the petition. to the said polling stations, whose was a likelihood that the margin would margin between the contenders of the Change’s (FDC) Apollo Kantinti, as NRM’s William Sitenda Sebalu results she unfairly and unilaterally have reduced even further. election, where Kantinti was declared Member of Parliament representing sued Kantinti, the EC and Bukirwa cancelled. Kaweesa further expressed concern winner, with 9,005 votes and Sebalu Kyadondo East constituency, due to for conniving to commit several He said the acts of the EC and about the quality of work done by the runner-up with 8,679 votes. non-compliance with electoral rules irregularities, which affected the quality Kantinti, through Bukirwa, were illegal, the presiding offi cers in Kyadondo However, Kantinti said: “I am a governing the Parliamentary Elections of the election in Kyadondo East. adding that it led to the conclusion constituency, specifi cally a one candidate and not the EC. I will appeal Act by the Electoral Commission (EC). On Friday, the judge said Bukirwa that the voters did not have their Sempebwa Kato, the presiding offi cer because I cannot stand such injustice Following the nullifi cation of the disenfranchised voters and failed to votes accorded legal weight and, of Manyangwa TC polling station, who at its best.” elections, the presiding Judge, Isabirye secure custody of election materials by hence, did not see the fruits of their confessed on oath that he signed DR He added that he does not believe in Kaweesa, on Friday ordered that fresh failing to account for the whereabouts efforts. forms before the commencement of the the judgment because over 90% of the elections be conducted. He ruled that of declaration of election result forms According to the judge’s situation voting exercise. people voted. Fake phones a threat to security — UCC By Jeff Andrew Lule Tumwebaze, to the Uganda authority to approve all Communications House, in information communication Uganda Communication Kampala on Friday. technology equipment coming Commission (UCC) has called Tumwebaze toured the into the country, but they do on Parliament to approve a digital logger unit (used to not have powers to control and law that mandates them to monitor television and radio set standards. terminate fake phones. stations), the UCC call centre, In March, the Government The UCC’s executive director, the computer emergency tabled a Bill to tighten control Eng. Geoffrey Mutabazi, said response team used to monitor over social media. The Bill counterfeit phones are a social media and manage will amend the Uganda security threat to the country. cyber attacks such as hackers Communications Act 2013 They are of poor quality, thus and the internet exchange by removing the requirement making tracking them hard. point. for the sector minister to seek Mutabazi said fake phones Mutabazi said there is an parliamentary approval in are mostly used for fraudulent infl ux of imported counterfeit regulating the communications activities on top of being a phones onto the Uganda sector. health hazard. market that needs to be halted Tumwebaze said they will Mutabazi said this in an to protect Ugandans. invest more in fi ghting cyber interview with New Vision, The UCC senior public crime and the perpetrators during a visit of the Minister for relations offi cer, Isaac Kalembe, because they are a threat to President Museveni (with hat) with Kibedi’s family members during the burial at Information, Communication said the Communications Act the communication rights of Nabitende in Iganga district on Saturday. Photo by Kennedy Oryema and Technology, Frank 2013, mandates the regulatory all citizens. President hails late Kibedi for duty By Charles Kakamwa others like Prof. Rugumayo was a big boost to our struggle for President Yoweri Museveni has BETWEEN THE LINES: good governance because they hailed the late Joshua Wanume  Second deputy Prime revealed to us a lot about Amin’s Kibedi, describing him as a Minister Kirunda Kivejinja government,” he said. great patriot and pan-Africanist, said despite Kibedi being in Museveni said as such, who accomplished his mission a powerful cabinet position, when the National Resistance despite working in a challenging he never misused his Movement government came situation. powers. to power in 1986, he met with Addressing mourners during Kibedi in Luwero and appointed Kibedi’s burial at his ancestral him Uganda’s permanent home in Nabitende village, Kibedi, who was Uganda’s representative to the UN. Namalemba sub-county in permanent representative “I salute Kibedi for his Iganga district on Saturday, to the United Nations (UN) contribution to his family, Museveni said the deceased headquarters in New York from school (Busoga College Mwiri) was among the foresighted 1986 to 1988, passed away on and country. He opened a law young men, who sowed seeds of June 13 in London, UK, after fi rm in London and became patriotism and pan-Africanism a long battle with rheumatoid self-reliant. It is that spirit the in the 1970s. arthritis, that subsequently young people must emulate. He said while Kibedi was triggered complications leading To the youth, you should know based in the United Kingdom, to lung fi brosis. He was 75 what your role is in taking this he collaborated with others in years old. country ahead,” he said. India and Uganda. He said the Museveni said he fi rst heard Earlier, Prime Minister deceased is from a generation of Kibedi in 1970 when he Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda that did its historical duty. (Kibedi), as a young man, corroborated remarks by “That generation was in a decided to challenge Sam Second Deputy Prime Minister country with so many problems. Odaka, then powerful Uganda Kirunda Kivejinja that during It was an unpredictable time,” People’s Congress leader, for his time in cabinet, Kibedi saved he said in reference to the a seat in Jinja during the party him (Rugunda) and ex-premier turbulent 1970s, when Kibedi primaries. Odaka, however, Kintu Musoke from death at the served briefl y as foreign affairs beat Kibedi by a slim margin, hands of Amin. By Rogers Sunday minister in former president Idi Museveni noted. Bishop Paul Naimanhye Amin’s government. Museveni told mourners of of Busoga Diocese, who led “Therefore, the late Kibedi his encounters with Kibedi, his prayers at the burial, asked was part of a generation that falling out with Amin and his people not to be derailed by did its historical duty. When a resignation as foreign affairs wealth and positions they hold generation fails to do what is minister in Amin’s government, in society, but to stick to the expected of it, the country is which he said was a big boost to word of God, which lasts forever. plunged into problems,” said fi ghting against the regime. Kibedi is survived by a wife, Museveni. “His resignation and that of Rose Kibedi and six children.