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Oct 22 2009, John

One out of every 10 names in the national voters register is a ghost, an NRM special internal investigation has revealed.

The report, commissioned in May by NRM Secretary General Amama Mbabazi, a copy of which Daily Monitor has seen, indicates that...

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