Kalundi Sserumaga, a former Radio One presenter, is a free man again after the Buganda Road Court Grade One Magistrate, Mathias Tumwijukye, dismissed the seditious charges against him. The magistrate cited the recent constitutional court ruling that scrapped the law of sedition off Uganda’s law books to dismiss the case. While appearing on a local television station in September last year during the Buganda riots, Sserumaga made utterances that government did not take lightly.
During the talk show he castigated the president Museveni government for unleashing terror on Ugandans who were protesting the government’s refusal for the Kabaka to tour Kayunga district, which is one of the territories in Buganda Kingdom.A few minutes after the talk show, Sserumaga was kidnapped by security operatives after Friday and bundled in a car boot. Sserumaga was allegedly tortured and kept incommunicado for more than eight hours.
He was later dumped at Central Police station in Kampala where he was kept for three days before being charged with several counts of sedition. Sserumaga was later arraigned in court and charged with sedition and making statements that annoyed the person of the president.The dismissal of his case is a precedent in the struggle for freedom of expression and respect of the constitutional ruling.
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati
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