6. That the said soldiers were deployed and continued to harass suspected Besigye supporters up to the elections.
7. That during the entire period of campaigns, Gad Buturo the Gomborora Internal
Security Officer (GISO) for Kihiihi Sub-county, Peter Mugisha, a Councilor for Kambuga, Stephen Rujaga, Godfrey Karebenda and many other civilians on
candidate Museveni’s task force regularly went around with guns threatening Besigye supporters to compel them to support candidate Museveni. We reported their activities to the Electoral Commission and Police and the Region Police Commander, Mr. Stephen Okwaling, who promised to handle the issue, sent a Mobile Police Unit to Kanungu which attempted to arrest the said Rujaga without success. The following day, the said Regional Police Commander was ordered out of the region on the very day that candidate Besigye was to address a rally in Rukungiri town. The district Police commander for Rukungiri had also earlier been withdrawn.
8. That in the absence of any Senior Police Officer in the said town, the PPU soldiers unleashed even more terror and in the process, they shot to death one of our supporters and injured 14 others without any provocation whatsoever. As a result of this terror our agents feared to canvass for support for our candidate.
9. That following our complaint about inflated voter’s registers in Rukungiri and Kanungu districts, the Electoral Commission agreed to directly handle the issuing of voters’ cards in Rukungiri town to sample the veracity of our complaint and they found that only less than 50% of the cards were actually picked. We demanded that in the circumstances they should handle distribution in the whole sub-region, but this was not done. Instead, on the eve of the election, the Electoral Commission announced that whoever was on the register was
free to vote. As a result in Rukungiri town votes were cast under names which, the, Commission had found to belong to fictious/non-existent persons.
