High Court Judge Simon Peter Kinobe has said he can’t order the Electoral Commission to reinstate Speaker Anita Among’s opponents on the national voters’ register as it would be interfering in the electoral roadmap.
In his decision on an appeal filed by Mercy Marion Alupo and Norma Suzan Otai who were interested in contesting for Bukedea district woman MP but were deleted from the register on the basis that they were neither residents nor originals of Bukedea district, Kinobe said at the stage at which the electoral process is, he would be interfering if he were to order that the duo be reinstated on the register.
It adds that because the voters’ register is closed, it becomes succinct that it should not be interfered with by adding voters.
Otai and Alupo had sought through the High court to set aside the decision of the Electoral Commission to uphold their deletion from the National Voters’ Register for Bukedea district by the Parish Tribunal.
They had claimed that the decision to delete them had been arrived at without them being given the right to be heard.
But in his ruling, Kinobe says there was evidence to show that the duo had been given an opportunity to be heard.
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