President Museveni has revealed that the party gave 3 days amnesty to all party officials who rigged the just concluded party primaries for Member of Parliament to surrender themselves.
The president was speaking at Kakyeeka Stadium where he met NRM party leaders from Mbarara and Sembabule district where the elections were marred by massive rigging and doctoring results to favor those who lost.
“I have given all those who did it a three-day amnesty starting today to come clean. If they do not heed this call, we shall announce the true results and instead prosecute those fraudsters”.
Museveni added “In Kiruhura, for example, we have verified results from 151 villages and we are left with 60 other villages. We shall make our independent conclusions. This is what we shall do in all districts with problems. And for those villages which did not get to vote, they will vote”.
“There were some party members who have been supporting other parties, yet they came to stand on the NRM ticket to be MPs. These must tell us where they belong. Also, NRM district chairpersons should be neutral in these party primaries. All in all, we must have order in the party”.
If we are to go by the national party chairman word, several ministers and NRM leaders could find themselves in trouble.
For example, the director of Criminal Investigations has already taken over investigations against Minister Tom Butime of Mwenge Central in Kyenjojo who held the district registrar at gunpoint to declare him the NRM flag bearer despite losing to Mr Wilson Musiime.
Minister Butime is also accused of doctoring fake votes where he claims that he polled 10,000 votes in a single village which is very impossible because no single village in Uganda has a population of such numbers.
He is also accused ferrying people from different districts using Lories to come and line up for him and beating up the area DISO who tried to block him.
According to a source at Kibuli, the case is already registered at the political crimes desk and the minister is yet to be summoned for grilling and prosecution.
Another minister is constitutional affairs minister Ephraim Kamuntu of Sheema South who was declared the winner after 3 days of attempts to change results.
Prof Kamuntu contested against Prof Elijah Mushemeza and Nickson Banduho.
The minister is reported to have been the 3rd in the race but used his influence and money to doctor results and was subsequently declared a winner the following Sunday.
Prof Elijah Mushemeza who says won the polls has already picked the nominations forms to contest as independent come 2021.
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