3. ……………………………….. 4. ………………………………… 5. ……………………���………….. 6. A person who during the campaign in respect of an election solicits from a candidate or a candidate’s agent any money, gift, alcoholic beverage or other consideration in return for directly or indirectly influencing another person to vote or to refrain from voting for a candidate or in consideration for his or her voting for the candidate or not voting for another candidate, commits an illegal practice” The language of the above section is clearly talking about a person targeted for a bribe to be a voter. It necessarily, in my view, follows that one of the ingredients to be proved in the offence of bribery is that the target person or persons is or are registered voters. Group bribery therefore, in my view, has no place in that law. The offence can only be proved against members of a group in their individual capacities basing on particulars relevant to each ones’ status as a registered voter. If Parliament intended to cast the net so wide as to get groups and villages, it would have clearly stated so. Iam comforted in this view by the holding of my learned sister C.K Byamugisha JA in Kirunda Kivejinja Ali vs Katuuntu Abdu Election Petition Appeal No. 24 of 2006 at page 27 when she stated; “It is therefore essential in allegations of bribery for the party alleging the same to prove on a balance of probabilities that the person or persons allegedly bribed were registered voters.” I am fortified in the same view by the holding of the Supreme Court in the case of Rtd Dr.Kizza Besigye Vs Electoral Commission and Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Presidential Election Petition No.I of 2006 in which Oder, JSC, as he then was stated;