By Stephen Bwire
KAMPALA – The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) has today morning kicked off its mass registration and update of the party register, registering massive turn-up, with a target of registering 17million voters and members.
The exercise, which started on Monday with training of Party Registrars and other field technical officials, is going on peacefully in most of the update centres.
However, a few cases of missing registers have been recorded.
According to the statement issued by the party’s secretary general Justine Kasule Lumumba, the exercise is to end on Sunday, March 15 though there are calls from the party leadership to extend the duration of the exercise it began late.
The exercise is being carried out at village level by registrars assigned to do this duty by the secretariat.
For the villages that were in existence as of July 2015, their registers have been prepared by the party secretariat with data of their members that were registered at the time.
Blank booklets have been provided for the newly created villages.
According to the secretariat, the exercise is meant to allow members to check the accuracy of their particulars on the 2015 register.
The exercise will also allow the secretariat to register new members, remove ineligible ones as well as inform members of their voting villages.
For anyone to register, they must be a citizen of Uganda, aged 16 and above, residing in that village and willing to be a member of NRM.
“A person shall be deleted from the register if that person died, left the party, shifted from the area or is a non-citizen,” the statement signed by Rogers Mulindwa, the senior manager in charge of information at the NRM secretariat, said.
Later, the membership card, (Endaga Yello) will be issued.
