KAMPALA,
Uganda
Six people were killed in Uganda in the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party election-related violence in Isingiro, Katakwi, Namutumba and Tororo districts on Friday.
Police identified the deceased as Gordon Muhumuza,
Wilber Nkabandiho and Bright Musa.
The Rwizi Region police spokesperson, Mr Samson
Kasasira, said Muhumuza, 20, was beaten to death by a mob in Rwakakwenda
Parish, Kabuyanda Sub-county in Isingiro South for allegedly trying to
interfere with the election process.
“The suspects are known and police is tracking
them so that they are prosecuted in court,” Mr Kasasira said.
Nkabandiho, 26, a resident of Katwengye Village in Isingiro Town Council was
reportedly shot dead by a UPDF soldier at a polling station.
“A presiding officer refused to declare who had
won and wanted to take off with the papers. In the process of trying to
disperse the angry crowd, a UPDF soldier ended up shooting dead one of the
voters,” Mr Kasasira said.
He added that Pte Siddi Katikiro and two other alleged accomplices have been
arrested.
Another case of shooting by UPDF soldiers was
registered at Rugaga Trading Centre in Bukanga North.
Mr Kasasira said Musa died while being taken to
Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital for treatment.
He was shot as soldiers were dispersing violent
supporters of Mr Jeremiah Kamurari.
Mr Kasasira said investigations into the matter are ongoing.
In Katakwi District, Teddy Akiror, a resident
of Kapujan Village, Kapujan Sub-county, was shot dead.
Akiror was killed following violence that
erupted between the supporters of the incumbent distrct chairperson, Mr Walter
Elakas, and the incumbent Toroma MP, Mr Andrew Joseph Kolou.
In Tororo, the NRM registrar, Mr Sinambiyo Oketcho, was knocked dead by a vehicle.
Voting was suspended in Bukono constituency
after an agent of State Minister for Lands, Ms Persis Namuganza, was killed. In
other areas such as Kiruhura, there were protests after the incumbent, Col Fred
Mwesigye, was announced winner of Nyabushozi. The supporters of Wilson
Kajwengye protested, saying the results were doctored.
Sanga Town Council mayor and a supporter of Mr
Kajwengye, Mr Safari Mugyenyi, claimed they were rejecting the outcome of the
election because the party registrars were biased.
They also claimed that the supporters of Mr
Kajwengye were not allowed to vote in Kinoni, Akeera and Kyamusisa areas. One
of Mr Kajwengye supporters, Dr Judah Orugumaho is nursing injuries at a
hospital in Rushere after being beaten.
Still in Kiruhura, the results of the district Woman MP delayed to be announced
and the supporters of the incumbent Ms Sheila Mwine, who was leading, protested
after the district NRM registrar announced that voting should be repeated at
one of the polling stations.
Ms Mwine’s supporters, who had started
celebrating, said they were surprised when the district party leadership
delayed the announcement of the outcome.
It was not clear why the Kiruhura NRM chairman,
Mr Shadrac Nzeire, declined to announce the results of the election and instead
waited for the NRM electoral commission chairman, Mr Tanga Odoi, to declare the
results.
Mr Odoi later said he would suspend the outcome
of Nyabushozi results because of the irregularities.
In the newly-created Rwampara District, the two
contestants for the seat declared themselves winners.
In Kinkizi East, State Minister for Urban
Planning Chris Baryomunsi protested the results and the process had to be
suspended.
In Sheema South, Kazo District, Dodoth East and Moroto Municipality, the
results were also not announced because of the protests.
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