{"id":5700,"date":"2025-07-21T17:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westernpearlreports.com\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:50:22","slug":"museveni-vows-to-cleanse-nrm-as-eight-face-arrest-over-rigged-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/museveni-vows-to-cleanse-nrm-as-eight-face-arrest-over-rigged-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni Vows to Cleanse NRM as Eight Face Arrest Over Rigged Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kampala, Uganda<\/strong> &#8211; President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, in his capacity as NRM Party Chairperson, has announced that state agencies have taken decisive action against individuals accused of compromising the party&#8217;s recent primary elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing fellow NRM members and the public, Museveni condemned the actions of &#8220;self-seekers&#8221; who sought to undermine the party&#8217;s integrity through electoral malpractice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security forces have so far arrested eight suspects from Mayuge, Buyende, Kapchorwa, Pader, Oyam, Rwampara, and Mbarara districts for allegedly tampering with election results during the tallying process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address electoral grievances, the President established a high-powered legal committee while warning that more arrests are imminent as investigations progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called on citizens to report any evidence of electoral offenses, particularly violence, bribery, and voter register interference, as the NRM faces increased scrutiny ahead of Uganda&#8217;s 2026 general elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Museveni emphasized that the ongoing crackdown serves dual purposes: to purify the party and safeguard national interests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reminded members of the NRM&#8217;s liberation heritage rooted in the National Resistance Army (NRA) and FRONASA movements, noting the party was built on martyrs&#8217; sacrifices rather than personal gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The anti-corruption drive has drawn mixed reactions nationwide, with party supporters hailing it as a necessary step toward transparency, while critics question whether the measures will extend to high-ranking officials implicated in irregularities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kampala, Uganda &#8211; President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, in his capacity as NRM Party Chairperson, has announced that state agencies have taken decisive action against individuals accused of compromising the party&#8217;s recent primary elections. Addressing fellow NRM members and the public, Museveni condemned the actions of &#8220;self-seekers&#8221; who sought to undermine the party&#8217;s integrity through electoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-nrm-party-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.messiahradio.co.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}