By Our Reporter
Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament Betty Nambooze Kakireke has turned her guns onto senior officials of the Electoral Commission, who she demands to resign for organizing elections in non existent constituencies, which has since seen Parliament annul the election of six legislators.
Nambooze’s demands for the resignation of EC bosses comes shortly after the Constitutional Court in Kampala threw six MPs out of Parliament after ruling that they had illegally been elected into the August House, because the EC had organised their elections in non existent constituencies.
The affected MPs include Patrick Ochan (Apac, UPC party), Elioda Tumwesigye (Sheema, NRM party), Tarsis Rwaburindore (Ibanda, NRM party), Hashim Sulaiman (Nebbi, NRM party), Asuman Basalirwa (Bugiri, Jeema party) and Abraham Lokii (Kotido, NRM party) were elected to parliament in non-existent constituents.
While addressing the media on Wednesday, Nambooze said in 2015 she cited irregularities during the creation of new constituencies and electoral areas but parliament and the Eectoral Commission ignored her advice.
“If parliament declared a place a district, it does not automatically translate into a constituency. When it comes to by-elections, they are only a result of a vacancy created in parliament,”she said.
She stressed that senior EC officials must resign for making people participate in sham elections in non existent constituencies, with ulterior motives.
“[Simon] Byabakama… if he is a man worthy of his name, should resign. You can’t take a country into elections that don’t exist. He is the custodian of electoral laws, he is the person who should tell us that we are not supposed to have an election here,”she said.
However, ever since the Constitutional Court nullified election of the above mentioned legislators, top EC officials have never released any statement about the impasse, which has since sparked off confusion in Parliament.
