This thread attempts to cast light on how the mgmt of #UBCLite worked in lockstep with the EC to mislead, misdirect, deceive and captivate viewers.
FYI, #UBCLite was coined by Tom Ddumba after NBS consistently became a state mouthpiece. The "adjective" fits like a glove 0/13

1/13 Take note that prior and during the elections the EC repeatedly announced that Absolutely NO ONE was allowed to have a tally center, not even the candidates. But somehow NBS was able to ignore those directives and implement what appeared to be a live tally center. Why? How?
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Now the station reportedly have Monday staff meetings. On the Monday of the election week, staff were notified about an election tally center going to be hosted at their station by a selected few (the special ones)- you know these people, they stick out like a sore thumb
3/13 On 15/1/21, when Canary took us through the infamous tour of the "command center", showing us their agents, and how their tally system was using phone calls to aggregate results, it was meant to build confidence in what they wanted to announce. They primed us for fake news
4/13 Interestingly, NBS actually had real staff deployed across the country to collect & relay actual tallies from districts. They collected results & called them in using phones, so on the 15th the teams down stairs were busy working out totals for different districts
5/13 You may recall that NBS never ever gave us an update from their "tally center" Will they ever share it?
Forgive the detour, apparently NBS is reported to have received special data lines from UCC that no other station was able to have which is how some of them were online.
6/13 Also, If you remember, NTV struggled with direct phone calls while NBS was able to stream from locations in Arua and Gulu and broadcast it live on TV, they even streamed Museveni voting in Rwakitura live. They never explained how they were able to do this, why?
7/13 Back to the Tally centre, They team reportedly tallied for sure but to the surprise of those tallying, before they even handed over the results for the tally on the 15th, the guys in the studio broke the news of M7 leading with 63%.
8/13 All CCTV cameras of the building were turned off and the usual staff who work in the control room were asked to leave only to be replaced by 5 strange guys. To those who noticed, even the camera angles started going wrong.
9/13 It’s reported that staff @ the NBS command center shouted with shock when they watched what was announced which led the “boss” from upstairs to restore order and send them, giving them an allowance of 50k. They made them leave a few minutes after midnight. #smh
10/13 Taking you back to the tally that the NBS staff said they had got, the guy wrote that at the time, “Bobi wine had won over 90% of all the polling stations we had gathered with a very huge magin. Bobi had hit a million votes before M7 even made 150K votes”
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adds "My problem is if they knew what they wanted to do, why kill & imprison all these young people for just loving someone, the guy who used to carry bobi’s poster to different round abouts in Kampala was followed & shot a day before elections, this made me very sad..."
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I read this with an open mind and while I have no way of confirming what transpired at NBS, the account of events is consistent with what I watched on NBS on the 15th and 16th of January 2021. I lost about 18 hours of my life I will never get back watching that garbage.
13/13 In closing, If UBCLite wants to dispute the account of events on the 15th, they are free to do so first by sharing with the public the district tallies they got from their agents deployed across the country.
If in doubt, please ask your friends who work at NBS.

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The DIVERSITY INFORMATION section in yr job application mentions 'legal equality duties'. You then ask "What is your gender identity?" with options

Female
Male
Non-binary
Not-listed
Other

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'Gender identity' is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and is not defined in the Act.

https://t.co/qisFhCiV1u

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Sex is the protected characteristic and the only two possible options for sex are 'Female' and 'Male' as defined in the Act and consistent with biology - 'non-binary' and 'other' are not valid options.

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'Gender identity' is not a synonym for sex.

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You then ask "Does your gender identity match your sex registered at birth?"

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Again, 'gender identity' is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and is not defined in the Act.

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