Sembatya Vs Muwanga
Sembatya Vs Muwanga (Election Petition Appeal No. 34 of 2016) [2018] UGCA 5 (19 January 2018)
The Court of Appeal held that the appellant's Finance Officer's Diploma, awarded by Uganda Management Institute before the establishment of NCHE, was valid and did not require equivalence by NCHE for purposes of nomination as a Member of Parliament. The Court found that the applicable law and circulars exempted such diplomas from mandatory equivalence, and UNEB's letter equating the diploma to UACE was sufficient. The Court further held that discrepancies in the appellant's names on academic documents were satisfactorily explained by statutory declaration, and there was no evidence that the d…
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- Academic Qualification For Mp
- Nomination Requirements
- Equivalence Of Academic Documents
- Statutory Declarations
- Name Discrepancies
- Powers Of Nche And Uneb