By Gladys Mukisa.
The ruling NRM MP candidate for Kalungu East in the just concluded elections Mzee Vicent Frerrio Bamulangaki Ssempijja’s is once again under the spotlight over the sharp accusations of attempting to compromise the High Court staff in Masaka, in his new well-orchestrated grand scheme aimed at unseating his political rival, the incoming area MP Yusuf Kiruuruuta Nkerettanyi (NUP) who awaits swearing in next month.
Blazer News Times can exclusively report that Mzee Ssempijja’s team was on Wednesday 8th spotted around the High Court in Masaka, monitoring about the progress of their new filed petition with the same Court, challenging the declared Nkerettanyi’s January 15, 2026 election outcome.
Court documents seen by this news Website shows April 2nd ,2026, as the date on which an election petition No.6 of 2026, was filed. The petitioner according to the documents is; Hon Ssempijja Vicent Frerrio Bamulangaki versus Kiruuruuta Yusuf Nkerettanyi -1st respondent, and the Electoral Commission as the 2nd respondent.
However, it has emerged from Nkerettanyi’s camp that Ssempijja’s team presence at the regional High Court was intended to lure its registry staff into a compromise to amend the schedule reflecting the timeline within which the petition was filed, which did not come to fruition, thus pushing him in a terrible humiliation.
Blazer News Times was exclusively interviewing Nkerettanyi on Thursday after being tipped off by the reliable sources in Masaka regarding the matter.
“On Wednesday they were around Masaka Court intending to bribe for the change of the date regarding their filed petition”. He told Blazer News Times.
The incoming parliamentary novice wondered why his political nemesis Ssempijja with four decades political experience, attempted to use that option yet he had filed his petition out of time.
“You had 30 days to do it and you have been in this government for 40 years, how come you never figured out counting 30 days to the extent of scheming to bribe your way through distortions? He questioned, before adding that It showed how un prepared they are.
The Parliamentary Elections Act one of the legal instruments relied on by Court to determine electoral petitions, provides “that every election petition shall be filed within 30 days after the day on which the result of the election is published by the Commission in the Gazette”
Nkerettanyi accused Ssempijja of working tooth and nail to frustrate his new parliamentary role through endless Court battles, however, saying he was firm never to be swayed.
“It is very embarrassing for Jajja to drag his grand son to Court claiming that he was rigged out. I am an amateur who never even stood for a Councilor position, how successful could then this have happened”? He wondered!
Efforts by Blazer News Times to seek response from Ssempijja were futile as he neither picked nor returned our frantic phone calls by the time this news report was filed.
Ssempijja earlier shortly after the disputed 2026 elections this year, filed for a vote a vote recount with the area Chief Magistrate lower Court in search to overturn his rivals declared victory but lost after some of the ballot boxes were found with broken seals.
He was formerly the area MP for many years and Masaka district chairperson before he was dropped from the Agriculture, Defence and Veterans Affairs Ministerial portfolios that he had held for a long time.
He is also the father for the sprawling Masaka district Woman MP elect Justine Nameere (NRM) whose election is under a sharp legal challenge in the High Court by the NUP’s Rose Nalubowa, following a controversial electoral recount by the Masaka Chief Magistrate Abert Asiimwe in February.
Asiimwe had revoked Nalubowa’s earlier declared victory by the Electoral Commission despite tracing several ballot boxes with broken seals, which many legal scholars called contradictory and an illegality.
That disputed recount is said to have produced more votes than of the results from those in the previous January 15, 2026 parliamentary and presidential elections.
