2. The environment at makerere university is very
tense and confusing.
Students are always excited about who will
win.
Some times it is not easy to express it in words
on the behavior of every students and the rally.
3. On the eve of voting all the contesting
candidates and their supporters have sleepless
nights and wander around asking for votes.
On the day of voting they keep around the
polling stations tirelessly asking for votes.
4.
5. Other candidates due to fear of losing, keep
giving students their posters while they hang
on trees, pin on dustbins and on building walls.
On the day for voting they keep showing the
students their posters so that their faces are not
forgotten.
6.
7. The electoral commission on the other hand
prepares the ballot boxes and it also makes
sure that it show the boundary between the
polling station and the general ground.
This they do by tying ropes from tree to tree, or
from poll to poll.
8.
9.
10. Some of the contesting candidates keep calling
their friends to come and vote for them.
11.
12. To make sure that they appear potential
candidates in the students’ eyes, contesting
candidates make a lot of promises.
How they will deal with Ddumba, Improve
sanitation, petition to the University
administration to abolish the 60% tuition policy
before registration.
Prevent the 10% tuition increment.
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PowerPoint so it will be shown from the flash
disk.
14. When it reaches time for elections many
students can be eagerly waiting for new leaders
due to the fact that new leaders come with new
ideas.
Some students can be expecting their new
leaders to work hand in hand with them and to
handle all issues that the out going leaders
have not worked on.
Some of the issues are hygiene both at campus
and the halls of residence , tuition fees and
missing marks.
15.
16. The electoral commission spokesperson said that this
years elections were free and fair due to the fact that
there were no cases of rigging votes before the voting
day like how it has been before.
Every eligible voter who had an Identity card and
examination permit was allowed to vote.
This year they did not have reports of irregularities.
