{"id":5551,"date":"2023-09-15T07:53:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T07:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2023-09-15T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T08:02:20","slug":"nrms-uthuman-wins-hoima-lcv-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2023\/09\/15\/nrms-uthuman-wins-hoima-lcv-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"NRM\u2019s Uthuman Wins Hoima LCV By-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Johnson Kanyesige<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate, Mr Uthuman Mugisha Mubaraka, has emerged victorious in the September 14 Hoima district LCV by-election.<\/p>\n<p>Mugisa was declared winner by Merab Kasande, the Hoima district returning officer at Dwoli Primary school in Kitoba sub-county.<\/p>\n<p>Mugisa garnered 18,353 votes beating four other candidates who also participated in the race.<\/p>\n<p>The other candidates were Vincent Muhumuza Savana who contested on an independent ticket. He emerged the second with 12,020 votes while Moses Aguuda of the National Unity Platform-NUP Party came third with 3,972 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Musinguzi of the Forum for Democratic change-FDC emerged fourth with 271 votes while Lenox Mugume another independent candidate got 179 votes.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kasande, the elections were peaceful, free, fair, and credible with no form of violence registered.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking shortly after being declared winner of the by-election, Mugisa thanked the people of Hoima for entrusting him with the seat.<\/p>\n<p>He says top on his agenda will be tackling the issue of massive land grabbing and evictions that have persistent in the district for long putting area residents on tension.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mugisa, he will ensure that all land titles that were acquired fraudulently are canceled so that people can settle peacefully on their land.<\/p>\n<p>He has rallied all those who lost to join him and work at improving and extending appropriate service delivery to the people of Hoima.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Byabakama, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission applauded the people of Hoima district for executing a high degree of discipline during and after the election saying the entire election process was peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>Byabakama thanked all the candidates who participated in the election for adhering to the guidelines issued to them by the electoral commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Hoima LCV seat became vacant following the tragic passing of Kadir Kirungi, the former LCV chairperson, in a motor accident on March 17, 2023, along the Hoima-Kampala Road in Mataagi village, Bukomero town council, Kiboga district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Kanyesige The National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate, Mr Uthuman Mugisha Mubaraka, has emerged victorious in the September 14 Hoima district LCV by-election. Mugisa was declared winner by Merab Kasande, the Hoima district returning officer at Dwoli Primary school in Kitoba sub-county. Mugisa garnered 18,353 votes beating four other candidates who also participated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5555,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions\/5555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}