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After the successful end of the brutal Kawempe North by-election on 13th March 2025, the winner Erias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola of the National Unity Platform had been placed on the waiting list and has never been sworn in for the last 10 days.
The silence of the electoral commission had become loud to the extent that even legislators became concerned that the winner in Kawempe hadn’t been sworn in to which the speaker said she’s waiting for official confirmation from the Electoral Commission by publishing the winner in the Uganda gazette.
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The NRM party’s apex body of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) had indicated that they would run to court to challenge the results. Minister of youths and children affairs recently claimed that NUP supporters donned JATT Uniforms and unleashed brutality on their fellow supporters and to the journalists causing mixed reactions.
Even when the NRM opted to run to court, they couldn’t do so when the results and winner are not published in the gazette though the president painfully revealed he doesn’t regret unleashing army and JATT onto the Kawempe North voters to curb what he termed as anticipated electoral violence.
The Electoral Commission has this evening published the results in the Uganda gazette hence giving way for Nalukoola to be sworn in as the duly elected Member of Parliament for Kawempe North through a by election following the death of Muhammad Ssegirinya alias Mr. Update who died in the 2nd week of January this year.
The race attracted 10 candidates including a former first son of fallen president Dr. Apollo Milton Obote but the battle lines were drawn between NUP’s Erias Luyimbaazi Nalukoola and NRM’s Faridah Nambi a daughter to the party’s first Vice Chairperson Al Hajji Moses Kigongo. Nalukoola garnered 17939 votes while Nambi polled 9059 and the rest got ranged between 32 votes to 350 votes.
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