By Editorial,
The Electoral Commission (EC) has received the second and final consignment of biometric voter verification kits ahead of Uganda’s 2026 general elections.
Today afternoon, the EC Chairperson, Justice Simon Byabakama, received the equipment at Entebbe International Airport, in the presence of representatives from two political parties.
Byabakama said the new batch contains more than 49,000 kits, complementing the first consignment of 60,000 that arrived a month ago. The consignment was delivered aboard a privately chartered airline from China, a Boeing B747-200F, which landed at midday before the kits packed in Electoral Commission-branded boxes were offloaded.
They were later loaded onto several EC trucks that had arrived in a convoy guarded by Counter Terrorism Police personnel and UPDF soldiers for security.
Justice Byabakama explained that with both deliveries complete, the EC now has the full number of kits required to deploy two units at each of the 50,951 polling stations across the country. Justice Byabakama speaking..
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