NEWS:NRM's Ariko declared winner of Soroti East parliamentary by-election

 

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The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate, Mr Herbert Edmund Ariko has been declared as the duly elected Member of Parliament for Soroti East Division following Thursday’s hotly contested by-election.

Ariko got 9,407 votes while his closest contender, Mr Moses Attan of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) got 8,771 votes.

Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) candidate Pascal Amuriat garnered 115 votes in the Thursday polls that were characterized by high presence of the armed forces - police and the army- and massive arrests of FDC members, including the party president, Mr Patrick Amuriat.