Trouble continues to haunt Mbabazi Boniface Junior, the embattled NRM flag bearer in the 2014 Guild elections at Makerere University after he was arrested and detained for alleged forgery of academic documents.

Mbabazi who was thrown out of the 2014/2015 race was this morning arrested by the ASP Jackson Mucunguzi the O/C Makerere University Police Station.

“We have arrested him to aid the investigations into a case where he is suspected to have forged academic papers from Nasser Road,” Mucunguzi said.

Mbabazi was picked from a crisis NRM delegates meeting at Guest House gardens. The meeting was meant to discuss and pronounce them on the embarrassment caused by Mbabazi.

Mr. Blaize Kamugisha the NRM-Makerere University chapter Chairman revealed that party big shots had advised that Mbabazi’s case be treated with keen interest.

“This behavior is a serious humiliation and cannot go unpunished,” he said adding that “we have got to expose him ourselves before anyone else does.”

He also said that Mbabazi would face a disciplinary committee that would later determine the fate of his membership and affiliation to the Makerere chapter.

According to confidential sources, Mbabazi has six retakes. The source revealed that with the aid of the branch General Secretary, one Gabriel Acaye duped the party into accepting Mbabazi’s sole candidature in the NRM primaries.

“We wanted to hold a competitive primary but ‘Gabriel’ jeopardized the whole exercise,” said the source.

Gabriel however dismissed the allegation as filth.

When contacted, the apologetic Mbabazi said that he was sorry to the party whose chance to win the Guild election had severely come to an end.

“I regret that my behavior has cost not only my personality but also the image of the party,” Mbabazi said.

He however said that not six, but “only three” retakes have landed him in hot soup.

It is also alleged that Mbabazi strategically assisted commissioners of the Electoral Commission to avoid any form of serious scrutiny.

Mbabazi Project.
It is alleged that the project was crafted way back last year after the 2012/2013 Guild elections which were won by FDC’s Anna Adeke Ebaju (who beat NRM’s Okot Boniface).

It was then that Mbabazi arched the deal of being Presidential contender for 2013/2014 and as a way to consolidate his dream; he planted Old boys and Girls as well as close confidants into the party in case of a primary election.

But with the aid of Mr. Acaye, no such thing as primary election would be entertained for Mbabazi’s uncontested victory for the flag.

There was also conspiracy to forge documents from Nasser Road to dupe the electoral commission, should the issue of academics be taken serious.

It is this project that has seen to recent developments.

How it all started
On Wednesday 26th February 2014, the Forum for Democratic Change at Makerere held a hotly contested election that was won by Andrew Mujinya, a second year student of Information and Communication Technology with 36 votes, beating his closes rival Lillian Aber from the School of Languages,Literature and Communication by only five votes.

Both Mujinya and Aber are members of the outgoing Adeke-led guild regime. Mujinya served as Academic Affairs minister while the later was Minister for information. The two had strategically used their offices to prepare for the students’ top job.

After the primary, Aber painfully accepted the defeat but that was not all. She allegedly hired the assistance of their former Vice President one Jeremaya Keeya Mwanje to dig holes in Mujinya’s academic credentials.

Skillfully employing his wits, it is said that Keeya found Mujinya to be having missing marks in one of his course units. News then went viral that the FDC flag bearer did not have the academic requirement of normal progress as established under Article 9 of the Guild Constitution, a case that caused panic in all political camps vying for the 2014/2015 presidency.

With Aber now potentially assuming the FDC flag, a petition from Mujinya’s camp to the EC requiring a public display of academic documents of all candidates set in.

It is from this point that the EC was put at tenterhooks to scrutinize all the documents with the assistance of the Academic Registrar.

Four candidates including Mbabazi Boniface Junior were on 3rd March 2014 thrown out of the 2014 guild election race for lack of academic qualification.

Others include; Emmanuel Wanyama and Faisal Muyiga both from the School of Adult and Community Education, and Emmanuel Murungi from the School of Languages,Literature and Communication.

What next for Mbabazi.

With a pending disciplinary action from the NRM party, Mbabazi’s academic life at Makerere University lies in shambles.

The university rules and regulations criminalise cases of forgery with prosecution and expulsion from the university should the case be of extreme nature.

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