Do you think that the Electoral Commission of Uganda will deliver free and fair polls in 2016?

BACKGROUND:

The 2016 elections might be just over two years away, but paranoia is already building up within opposition ranks, with skepticism rising that the ballots have already been fixed in favour of President Museveni to allow him latitude to perpetuate his grip on power. Opposition fears are largely grounded in the composition of the Electoral Commission (EC), which they insist is filled with appendages of the ruling party and thus, cannot be trusted with supervising a free and fair election.
In 2009, Mr Museveni re-appointed Mr Badru Kiggundu to lead EC for a second and last seven-year term, amid stiff resistance from opposition politicians and donor groups.
Basing on a 2006 Supreme Court ruling, they contended that the election run by this team in 2006 was adjudged to be rife with irregularities. Their term ends in 2015, one year before Ugandans head to the polls and it remains to be seen whether Mr Museveni will extra-legally renew their term after controversially doing so with Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki.

QUESTION:
Do you think that the Electoral Commission of Uganda will deliver free and fair polls in 2016?
A. Yes
B. No

INSTRUCTIONS:
Go to messages on your phone type in STUDIO followed by either A. YES or B. NO and send this to 8585. FREE of charge.

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