Did Uganda just accidentally expose some major discrepancies in its voter registration? The recent census results have Kampala’s Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, raising some serious eyebrows, and honestly, he might have a point as this has come out to show that underage Ugandans are more than those of age.
Lukwago, who’s also the interim president of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Katonga faction, is calling out the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) for their numbers that just don’t seem to add up. The big head-scratcher?
The population census results show a whopping 50% of Ugandans are minors, meaning they can’t vote. But here’s the kicker as Uganda already has a whopping 18 million registered voters. Do the math, and if those census numbers are legit, getting 9 million more eligible voters on the books would mean a total of 27 million registered voters.
Something’s fishy, right? also Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago thinks so. He’s hinting that the whole thing might be a case of inflated voter figures and is urging his party to tread carefully with all this iffy data floating around. Adding fuel to the fire, UBOS has actually yanked the main census report from their website for a do-over, which, let’s be honest, doesn’t exactly shout “nothing to see here.”
“I can not accept these figures from UBOS about census, how can Uganda have half the whole population to be minors? This doe not resonate at all and this is a gimmick to ridge votes in 2026, every political party has to be careful” he hinted.
Uganda has over time had issues with voter registrations and the exact number of voters, where the announced results have always been variating from the actual voters. This also has been mounting to vote ridging as a case from mainly opposition who have been in and outside court for the same issue.
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Is this just a big misunderstanding, or is something more calculated going on? Guess we’ll have to wait for UBOS to crunch the numbers (again) to get some real answers. And we understand Ugandans are waiting to see what may come out of the sack as they all wait to pin the ‘votes thieves‘ as they call it.