Published on 10/12/2024
National Resistance Movement (NRM) party is nearing completion of a credible voter’s register for the 2025 internal elections, aimed at selecting flag bearers, according to Hajjat Medina Naham, the party’s Finance and Administration Director.
Speaking in Arua City, Medina reassured party members that efforts to digitalize the membership register were progressing smoothly. She highlighted the importance of the two West Nile data centers, where the process is taking place. The initiative is expected to ensure transparency and accuracy in the upcoming elections. Medina’s comments reflect the party’s commitment to a fair and efficient electoral process.
The 21 days activity at 20 data centres countrywide follows the March 2024 register update and registration of the new NRM members.
“This time around, we are going to ensure that we have an all-inclusive register at the time of elections, and I don’t expect us to have many challenges like we did in the previous registers,” Hajjat Medina said.
In this project, Medina said a team of data clerks familiar with local dialects, IT officers, verification officers and supervisors were hired to ensure due diligence before any data is uploaded into the system.
“We have so far captured about 13 million out of the 18 million registered members and we hope to complete the exercise within the stipulated time or even less, ” Medina said as she commended the teams involved in the process.
When complete, the register shall be printed and sent to all the villages for members to check and confirm their particulars.
“The students and those who may have missed to register will then have an opportunity to be registered,” Medina said.
“We recruited very fine teams to do a good job. Their welfare is taken care of to ensure smooth work operations. There are so far no major challenges because the online system is effective and the computers are good too,” Irene Nyafono a supervisor at Arua city data Centre supervisor said.
