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.
Kyagulanyi said that regardless of attempts by the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) to hinder democratic progress by purportedly trying to install General Muhoozi Kainerugaba as President Yoweri Museveni's successor; eventually, elections will need to be held, and added that when that time comes, NUP will need to be found to confront what he called a tyranny.
Under the multi-party dispensation, Dr. Gerald Siranda Blacks, the DP’s Secretary General argues that the Administration of Parliament Act and Rule 196 of the Rules of Procedure of Parliament allows parties to nominate members for designation by their respective Whips in the House but the same rules undermine powers to recall the nominees.
