Alliance For Finance Monitoring

Alliance for Campaign Finance & Monitoring (ACFIM) has called upon the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to immediately come up with an account on why they have consistently unheeded to appropriating funds to finance political parties in

Today,9th October 2020 Uganda celebrates her 58th anniversary of self –rule. The day the union jack was lowered and the Ugandan flag raised, and the instruments of power handed over to Ugandans. Celebrations, ululations filled the atmosphere as the coalition based

Mystery surrounds the National Resistance Movement (NRM) sources of funds and her exorbitant spending. Ahead of the 2020/2021 general elections, NRM has already begun her spending spree with procurement of over 68,000 Bicycles for the Local Council one chairpersons

The NRM primaries that transpired early this month were marred with astronomical sums of money spent by candidates triggering violence in most constituencies across the country. It was clearly observed that some candidates took part in door to door voter bribery

After glancing at what happened during the National Resistance Movement party primary elections, a picture of what can be termed as a “strange democracy” came to my mind. The election was characterized by spending of colossal amounts of money on bribing of

Media for the last two weeks has been awash with what transpired in the NRM primaries for Members of Parliament. Justifiably so, the violence and excessive voter bribery that characterized the NRM primaries raise concerns over what we should expect in the general
elections.

Preliminary analysis from ACFIM campaign finance Database reveals that candidates for the National Resistance Movement(NRM) Party primary elections for Member of Parliament flag bearers that were conducted on September 4th , 2020, spent on average UGX 300 million