High Court in Kampala has nullified election of Forum for Democratic Change’s Apollo Kantinti the Kyadondo East legislator.
Mr Kantinti we defeated ruling party NRM’s William Sitenda Sebalu by by a small margin of 326 votes now becomes the 13th MP to be thrown out.
The presiding judge Isabirye Kaweesa nullified Kantinti’s election over non-compliance with electoral laws by the Electoral Commission.
Justice Kaweesa questioned the Wakiso District returning officer Ms Sarah Bukirwa for disfranchising the voters and also failing to secure custody of election materials.
Ms Bukirwa and the EC also failed to account for the whereabouts of the Declaration Forms from seven polling stations in the constituency and that even after detecting this anomaly, she did not file a police report in relation to the said seven polling stations whose results that she unfairly and unilaterally cancelled.
“In such circumstances of erroneous entering of results in DR forms, it was very difficult to ascertain the winning margin between contenders of this election where Kantinti was declared winner with 9005 votes and Mr Sebalu as second runner up with 8679 votes.” ruled the judge.
Justice Kaweesa ordered the Electoral Commission to organize fresh elections in Kyadondo East constituency.
