In Nabweru, Nansana Municipality, Agatha Mulawa, a local resident, woke up to find people sitting on benches near the town council offices. Surprised, she learned that the Electoral Commission (EC) officials were on-site to register new voters and update the existing voter register. A first-time voter, Mulawa had assumed that registration was automatic after receiving a national ID.
Speaking to political leaders and civil society organization-CSO actors, during the post-election evaluation meeting held at Iganga district headquarters last Friday, Mastiko said that they have put in place a system where all their staff implicated in jeopardizing the smooth execution of the electoral process shall be registered.
Aziza Magumba, a fuel trader in Mpungwe trading center, alleged that Majegere’s supporters attacked her on December 17th, 2020 and took off with Shillings four million after battered her unsparingly.
While addressing the press about their findings on Thursday, the observers noted that due to lack of civic education, several registered voters did not participate.
The rise in number of new voters in Napak has been attributed to the increase in civic education in the area that caught the attention of the youth to engage in peaceful politics rather than the politics of protests.
Georgia Tumwesigye, the Program Officer Women in Leadership at Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), says donors seem to have lost interest in funding governance programs in the country.
The CSOs that operate in Gulu, Kitgum, Pader, Lamwo, Agago, Omoro, Nwoya and Amuru districts asserted that educating the electorates is the surest way to increase motivation to turnout so that election results might better match the will of the people.
Each of the 11 districts within the region will be assigned three district coordinators who shall carry out civic education and massive community sensitization about the people power.
Despite accrediting over 60 Civil Society Organizations to carry out civic education, politicians in Masaka area say the Electoral Commission has not done much to educate Ugandans about elections.
Roselyn Karugonjo, the Director Monitoring and Inspections UHRC says the Early warning project will include Education, investigations and monitoring Human Rights violations.
. James Saaka, the Executive Director of National Information Technology Authority Uganda-NITA-U disclosed that 15 billion of the 285 billion shillings has been allocated for the sensitization program.
