In 2018, the lawyer of the Electoral Commission Eric Sabiiti told URN that more than 100 local council general election petitions that ended up in court most of them had issues to do with voter registration.
This is after two consecutively scheduled Board of Trustees meetings scheduled for May 30 and June 6, 2019, aborted due to lack of quorum and absence of its chairperson, Alex Kakooza, who is also the Education and Sports Permanent Secretary.
Uganda Radio Network has learnt that Museveni, who had earlier this morning travelled back from West Nile, was scheduled to attend a cabinet meeting at State House Entebbe, before joining the summit. He had not turned up by 5 p.m.
The IPOD summit brings together political parties’ leaders and the council, a forum of Secretary Generals of political parties, with representation in Parliament.
They say for instance the cost of maintaining the increasing number of districts, municipalities town councils, and sub-counties is shooting to unbearable levels.
The Deputy Attorney General, Mwesigwa Rukutana, the acting Chairperson of the National Consultative Forum, said independents were also consulted and their views taken into consideration.
Bahati told parliament that although they had planned for elections as soon as the districts became operational, the processes were constrained by lack of finances. The government requires up to 2.4 billion Shillings to conduct elections in the new districts.
