GROUP FIVE PRESENTED BY AKUKU JUDITH NAMAGEMBE GERTRUDE ADOKORACH FLAVIA
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1. PRESENTED BY AKUKU JUDITH NAMAGEMBE GERTRUDE ADOKORACH
FLAVIA
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. 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.
5. 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.
6. Some of the contesting candidates keep calling their friends
to come and vote for them.
7. 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.
8. Our video could not be inserted in the PowerPoint so it will
be shown from the flash disk.
9. 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.
10. 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.