{"id":16076,"date":"2025-12-09T17:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=16076"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:42:00","slug":"electoral-commission-disqualifies-muscian-walukaga-from-busiro-busiro-east-mp-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/electoral-commission-disqualifies-muscian-walukaga-from-busiro-busiro-east-mp-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Commission Disqualifies Muscian Walukaga From Busiro Busiro East MP Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Popular Kadongo Kamu singer and Mayor of Kyengera Mathias Walukaga who was nominated as a NUP MP candidate for Busiro East has been denominated by the Electoral Commission for lacking valid academic qualification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EC found that Walukaga did not have the minimum academic requirements needed for nomination to the elective office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision is detailed in a letter dated 25 November from EC chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama responding to a complaint filed on 4 November 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The petitioner argued that Walukaga lacked the required academic qualifications for a parliamentary candidate and that the Certificate of Mature Age\/Aptitude Test he used during nomination had already expired by the time he presented it on 23 October 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walukaga, through his lawyers, insisted that the certificate was still valid because he used it to gain admission to university, where he is currently pursuing a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Public Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, after hearing both sides and reviewing the relevant laws, the Commission held meetings on 7, 10, 14, and 15 November 2025 and made several key findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Walukaga presented a Mature Age\/Aptitude Test Certificate issued by the Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) on 12 June 2023, along with an equivalence certificate from the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) dated 11 June 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Mature Age\/Aptitude Certificate clearly indicated it would expire on 12 June 2025\u2014two years after the date of issue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. During the hearing, Walukaga submitted a letter from IUIU confirming that he sat for the exam on 25 February 2023 and scored 54%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The same letter stated that the certificate remains valid for two years unless used for further studies. However, the certificate itself explicitly carries a two-year validity period.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. The EC noted that the law\u2014specifically Paragraph 9(b) of Legal Notice No. 12 of 2015\u2014states that a Mature Age certificate is valid for only two years from the date of award.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Referring to a Supreme Court decision in\u00a0Gole Nicholas Davis v Loi Kiryapawo<\/em>\u00a0(2007), the EC noted that an NCHE equivalence certificate cannot revive an expired qualification.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Based on these findings, the Commission concluded that Walukaga\u2019s certificate had already expired by the time he appeared for nomination on 23 October 2025. As a result, he did not meet the minimum academic requirements for a Member of Parliament as outlined in Section 4(1)(c) of the Parliamentary Elections Act.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. The EC therefore ordered that Mathias Walukaga stands denominated.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Editor;msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Popular Kadongo Kamu singer and Mayor of Kyengera Mathias Walukaga who was nominated as a NUP MP candidate for Busiro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1463cfc9f7684687bb470ac79667de81.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14652,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/ec-boss-justice-byabakama-warns-candidates-about-academic-qualifications-deployment-of-youth-vigilantes-to-protect-votes-is-illegal\/","url_meta":{"origin":16076,"position":0},"title":"EC Boss Justice Byabakama Warns Candidates About Academic Qualifications , Deployment of Youth Vigilantes To Protect Votes Is Illegal","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"June 18, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"By Our Reporters Justice Simon Byabakama has told candidates ahead of the 2026 general elections to strictly verify their academic papers before nomination and warned against deployment of youth vigilantes to \"protect' voters . \"All those persons who had their academic qualifications verified in previous elections for example in 2021\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "2026 General Elections"","block_context":{"text":"2026 General Elections","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/2026-general-elections\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bya.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bya.jpg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bya.jpg 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bya.jpg 2x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bya.jpg 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16052,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/independent-youth-mp-western-candidate-kakwanzi-elizabeth-disqualified-by-ec-over-forgery\/","url_meta":{"origin":16076,"position":1},"title":"Independent Youth MP (Western) Candidate Kakwanzi Elizabeth Disqualified By EC Over Forgery","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"December 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Electoral Commission has disqualified popular young politician Kakwanzi Elizabeth Acene , as the National Resistance Movement (NRM) flag-bearer for the Western Region Youth Representative to Parliament, due to forgery of her nomination papers. 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