– #Uganda This is an infringement of the right to free speech. Mr Museveni, @KagutaMuseveni @UCC_Official, do you think you can control social media? – Aubriana Aurora (@lilimobeth)

– Now @ucc you mean Facebook pages Ugandans follow which are managed by people in other countries have also to be licensed? And if yes, how? Don’t you just have to ban social media in Uganda or if maybe you can, you can try seizing @Facebook the inventors and patent holders. – Umbrella Generation (@voteNUP)

– Uganda regulator gives social media users, bloggers, etc. with large follows an Oct. 5, 2020 deadline to register “for monitoring by the state”. With polls in Feb. 2021, the govt repression of free expression is on steroids. The leopard has pimped his spots #FreedomDiesInUg – Charles Onyango-Obbo (@cobbo3)

In June 2020, the National Electoral Commission announced that candidates seeking electoral positions will be conducting digital or virtual campaigns, as a way of combating the spread of the novel coronavirus.

This means campaigns will be conducted mostly on radios, TVs and social media platforms, prompting the Inter-Party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) to appeal to media owners to give balanced coverage to all candidates in the forthcoming national elections, irrespective of their parties.