Muhammad Nsubuga, the Greater Masaka Regional Police Spokesperson, says they are still pursuing the suspects for their involvement in electoral malpractices. He says they have already summoned the presiding officers from the said polling stations to record statements.
Rakai police
have failed to track down five Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF soldiers who
raided three polling stations with more than 2000 pre-ticked ballots during the
presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday.
The incident
occurred at Lwoyo, Kibuuka and Kyanika polling stations during the presidential
and parliamentary elections.
Muhammad Nsubuga, the Greater Masaka Regional Police
Spokesperson, says they are still pursuing the suspects for their involvement
in electoral malpractices.
He says they have already summoned the presiding
officers from the said polling stations to record statements.
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Julius Ssempeera, the Lwamaggwa Sub-county Internal Security
Officer (GISO), says the soldiers were traveling in an army pickup, whose
number plate was smeared with clay making it hard to be identified.
He says the disgruntled voters in the affected polling
stations confiscated the boxes and destroyed them while others tore and burnt
the pre-ticked ballots.
Charles Mubiru, the Rakai Resident District
Commissioner, says they are still working with the Army’s 305th Battalion at
Sango Bay to identify the soldiers.
