A few weeks ago, the senior administrative officer of Kyambogo university Mr David Kasuuti alongside the ICT team presented and sensitized the Guild house on the university’s latest innovation of E-voting and since then the team had been moving around taking students through this innovation sensitizing them of its impact that it intends to bring in KYU as far as free and fair elections are concerned come next semester.
However, from then the issue attracted a lot of criticisms both positive and negative and our drone bee took time and talked to a few Kyambogo university students and this is what they had to say;
“The management of KYU is not serious there are various innovations they have put up but failed to maintain them like the E-kampus no longer shows results and it also takes ages to be updated, so how sure can I be that these same failures won’t happen to the E-voting system, therefore, I do not welcome the innovation,” said Abel Kakuru a second year student doing Business studies.
According to Rhoda Nakyerwa also a second year student of the said university, she believes that the initiative taken to introduce E-voting is so far what the university needs to up their standards and push it further to the top.
“People out there regard Kyambogo as local but with E-voting they will get silent because we are the first university in Uganda to take up such an innovation so kudos to the ICT team,” she added.
Some students are seeing this opportunity as a way to avoid the long queues and cut the hustle of having to wait a while in order to cast and this according to Solomon Obwot is a way forward to the right direction and in favour of the students well being.
The innovation for the E-voting was the reduce on the number of complaints received by students, these would come inform of rigging, unfair voting system among others, so it was up to the university to show the students that they pleas did not fall to death ears.
According to the senior administrative officer Mr Kasuuti, the equipment acquired for the process is of high quality and is one of a kind therefore the results will be accurate making the voting process run smoothly.
“You know students are hard people to satisfy, we have been receiving various complaints from petitions, to strikes all rooting from the alleged vote rigging and unfair voting system so we sought it best to do something about it hence introducing the E_voting system however some students are still not fond of it but with time, they will get used,” Kasuuti concluded.
