By Leonard Kamugisha Akida,
EAC REPORT
Ugandan opposition top bigwigs Dr. Kiiza Besigye Warren Kifefe and Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine are in Kenya on election observer mission to asses and monitor the conduct of the country’s general elections on Tuesday
On August 9, 2022, Kenyans across the country will go on polls to elect a new president and deputy president, governors, senators, members of the national assembly, and members of the county assembly.
Besigye and Bobi Wine arrived in Nairobi on Saturday courtesy of the Brenthurst Foundation.
“In Nairobi with other African leaders for the election observation mission,” posted Bobi Wine on his socials.
They are expected to be around until the winner of the presidential election is announced.
They are part of the 36 delegation by different groups to observe the electoral exercise in Kenya and later give a comprehensive report to their respective bodies.
A delegation by Brenthurst Foundation is led by former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe.
Other Ugandans on the delegation are NUP’s Secretary General Davis Lewis Rubongoya and Elon Natumanya, the cordinator of Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Youth Affairs (UPFYA)
Speaking to journalists, the Brenthurst Foundation delegation chair, Hailemariam Desalegn said they hope to see a free and fair election with democracy, good governance, respect of human rights, justice and rule of law essential objectives of the ‘Africa We Want’ Agenda 2063.
Other organisations that have dispatched electoral observers are European Union (EU), East African Community (EAC), Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Kenya, while African Union (AU) and the Common Market of Southern and Eastern Africa (COMESA) formed a joint delegation; AU-COMESA electoral observers.
The AU-COMESA is led by the former President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, supported by former Minister of Health and Social Development of Seychelles, Ambassador Marie-Pierre Lloyd, a Member of the COMESA Committee of Elders.
