The Forum for Democratic Change(FDC) has called upon the Uganda Human Rights Commission(UHRC) and the Parliament to investigate the whole Soroti East by election process.
Speaking to the media in Kampala,the party’s Deputy Spokesperson, John Kikonyogo,said they want specifically investigation to focus on the irregularities and arrests of FDC’S personnel on vague criminal grounds.
The party threatened to lodge a petition challenging the results from the Soroti East by-election that saw NRM’s Ariko Herbert declared the winner.
Kikonyogo noted that they are gathering evidence of the various fraudulent activities they say marred the by-election.
“Last Thursday saw voters in Soroti East go to polls to elect their member of parliament for the second time after the previous election being annulled by court on an individualized technicality,”he said.
“The heightened election which we believe was won by FDC’s Hon. Moses Attan, was marred with grave irregularities which include massive Ballot staffing, voter bribery, intimidation, imprisonment by the state machinery of military RDC’s and NRM’s high ranking officials who personally engaged in the irregularities,”he added.
Kikonyogo stated the Electoral Commission Chairperson and his commissioners cannot be excluded in the whole illegal process where agents were arrested from the polling stations and aided by EC officials.
“The FDC doesn’t accept any results that were declared by the EC because the election lacked credibility and was not based on the democratic principles of free and fair,”he said.