Editorial.

Electoral reforms are necessary before the next guild elections.
A number of students have shown interests in vying for the different positions as the tenure of the current guild government is soon coming to an end. The guild president is the top head as stipulated in the guild constitution no wonder majority of those who have so far expressed their intentions to stand do not mention other positions apart from this.
There are however outstanding questions as to why Nkumba University guild elections take place for two days. The brain behind this claim is that they want to give an equal opportunity to
weekend students to exercise their political rights in voting their leaders, but again this is not the only place in the world where elections take place .
Even in the world’s super power America, apart from those who vote on line, elections world over take place in only one day and Nkumba is not a special case. It is therefore possible to turn around events unlike when every thing is cleared with in one day.
The electoral commission should be independent so as to organize free and fair elections. For long the judiciary which is composed of members from the law school has been executing this duty. This can easily arouse assumptions that other candidates from different schools may not receive fair electoral treatment compared to their counterparts from the law school. The best solution to this would be getting equal representation from all the schools to this body and also involving monitors from other universities but how realistic is this?

Other necessary reforms could be leveling the ground for all the aspirants in terms of setting aside campaign rules and regulations with the university administration avoiding sidelining with some candidates.