The Kampala Metropolitan Police Traffic Commander, SSP Norman Musinga has announced guidelines that will be followed during the 2021 presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for Thursday January 14.

The National Electoral Commission will conduct the tallying of presidential results from 14th and 17th January, 2021 at Cricket Grounds Kyambogo.

The traffic guidelines that will be in place are;

There will be normal traffic flow along Kampala-Jinja Highway.

Kyambogo Cricket Ground (National Tally Centre) will only be accessible to accredited party officials.

The accredited VIPs will access the National Tally Centre through Kyambogo Road, Kyambogo University Western gate and park as they will be directed by Traffic Police.

Access to Kyambogo University will be restricted to only accredited persons.

Emergency vehicles (Fire brigade, Ambulances and Medical Team) will access the venue through Banda.

Eastern gate will be the exit route for emergency vehicles.

No procession along roads will be allowed.

Fuel tankers will be prohibited from accessing the City Centre.

There will be restricted movement of trucks loaded with sand, stones, scraps, garbage and any kind of explosives along all roads in Kampala Metropolitan Area.

Parking along roads is prohibited, motor vehicles found abandoned by the road side will be towed to the nearest police station at the owners cost and inconvenience.

All road users are reminded to adhere with SOPs of Ministry of Health and curfew time.

Any motorist who contravenes provisions of traffic regulations will be dealt with, in accordance with the Traffic and Road Safety Act 1998.

All motorists and other road users are advised to comply with the above Traffic guidelines to avoid inconveniences.

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Facebook has clarified why it erased various pages and accounts of President Yoweri Museveni’s social media enthusiasts.

The erasing of Facebook and Instagram accounts happened a few days to general elections which are scheduled to take place on Thursday January 14, 2020.

According to France24 news, Facebook’s head of communication for sub-Saharan Africa, Kezia Anim-Addo, said; “We removed a network of accounts and pages in Uganda that engaged in CIB (Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour) to target public debate ahead of the election.”

Some of the deleted accounts include that of; Ashburg Katto, Bajjo Events, Full Figure, Ismah Olaxess, Sebunya Shafique, and Lyvine Julius among others.

Several of the affected accounts defected from People Power, a political pressure group headed by Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine, to the ruling party National Resistance Movement (NRM) led by President Museveni.

Anim-Addo said the network was linked to the government ministry of information and communications technology. “Given the impending election in Uganda, we moved quickly to investigate and take down this network.”

“They used fake and duplicate accounts to manage pages, comment on other people’s content, impersonate users, re-share posts in groups to make them appear more popular than they were.”

Last year, several social pages belonging to the People power were hacked and deleted by unknown individuals prompting them to open up new ones.

The government of Uganda through Uganda Communication Commission (UCC), petitioned Google and Facebook demanding the deletion of the National Unity Platform (NUP) presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s campaign supporting platforms.

According to the a letter written by the UCC, government claimed that Bobi Wine’s campaign supporting platforms; Map Media, Kyoto, Olujjuliro, Lumbuye, KK TV, JB Muwonge, Trending channel, Uganda yaffe, Uganda Empya, Ghetto TV were used to mobilise riots which resulted into the reckless death of over 50 Ugandans.

Prior in September 2020, UCC directed all persons offering or planning to commence the provision of online data communication and broadcasting services to obtain authorization before offering services to the public however bloggers declined to heed to the directives noting that it infringes on their rights to communication.

The service providers include but not limited to blogs, online televisions, online radios, and online newspapers, audio over IP (AoIP), Internet Protocol TV (IPTV), Video on Demand (VoD), Digital Audio radios and televisions, internet/web radio and internet/web television.

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The senior presidential advisor on Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) in Busoga sub-region Florence Mutyabule has urged Ugandans to keep and embrace peace ahead of this week’s general elections.

Uganda goes to polls on the 14th January 2021 where electorates will choose their respective and desired president and members of Parliament (MPs) who will steer them through the next five years.

“Thank you for keeping peace during the two months campaign period. I urge you to do the same during and after the elections. This peace has its origin and we still need to enjoy it for thriving health, human rights, security and education.  I therefore ask you to vote for experienced leader and that is President Yoweri Museveni,” she said.

She said since there is some peace in the country and Ugandans can move from border to border without any interference, then the peace they are enjoying needs to be maintained by voting for a peace keeper who is Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

Recently, President Museveni and the heads of various security agencies assured Ugandans that no one will destabilize the country.

The Deputy Inspector General of Police (IGP) Maj Gen Paul Loketch said; “We shall not accept any disorder or chaos in the country. Nobody will shake our resolve. We are a very resilient force with an agile team that can adjust and adapt to any threats.”

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