Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Magistrates Court has charged Dr. Kizza Besigye with inciting violence. Besigye was produced at Buganda Road Court by police on Wednesday amidst tight security and charged before Grade One Magistrate Siena Owomugisha. Court heard that on May 24th, 2022 at Arua Park …
Read More »Prosecutor seeks extra time to present more witnesses in NUP bomb trial
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The army prosecutor Lt Col Raphael Mugisha has asked the General Court Martial in Makindye to give him extra time to present more witnesses in the case in which 32 supporters of National Unity Platform are accused of being in unlawful possession of explosive devices. …
Read More »How Kakwenza Rukirabashaija raised UGX 40M to save his sureties
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Satirical novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija says he has succeeded in fundraising 40 million shillings for his sureties whose arrest court had ordered, for failure to produce him in court. On January 25, 2022, the Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court granted Kakwenza a cash bail of 500,000 …
Read More »Hearing of petrol bomb suspects bail application flops
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The court chaired by Lt General Andrew Gutti on Monday failed to proceed with the bail hearing of petrol bomb suspects after one of the sureties, Busujju County Member of Parliament Lukyamuzi David Kalwanga, failed to name all the accused persons off his head. The …
Read More »Court issues warrant of arrest against Kakwenza’s sureties
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has issued a warrant of arrest against four people who stood surety for satirical novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, who was facing charges of offensive communication. The sureties include lawyer Julius Galisonga, the Secretary-General of the National Unity Platform David Lewis …
Read More »Lawyer Galisonga erroneously summoned in Kakwenza case
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has clarified that city lawyer Julius Galisonga was erroneously summoned to take plea on an offensive communication case against satirical Novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija. According to the correspondences seen by Uganda Radio Network, the Court erroneously summoned Galisonga to …
Read More »Court orders prisons OC to return Mabirizi’s documents
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Division High Court Judge Isaac Muwata, has ordered the officer in charge of Kitalya prisons, Hussein Aikomundu to return all the documents he confiscated from the jailed city lawyer, Male Mabirizi. The documents relate to Mabirizi’s bigamy case against Pastor Aloysius Bujjingo and …
Read More »Lawyer Mabirizi asks high court to cancel Pastor Bugingo’s bail
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyer Male Mabirizi currently in prison, has asked the High Court to cancel Pastor Aloysious Bugingo’s bail. This is after Entebbe Chief Magistrate Juliet Nakitende rejected Mabirizi’s request for canceling Bugingo’s bail on January 25. The Kampala High Court Criminal Division will hear Mairizi’s application …
Read More »Prosecutor arraigned in court over UGX 1.5million bribe
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Resident Chief State Attorney attached to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Masindi, Charles Bogere Bwiso has been arraigned before the Anti-Corruption Court in Kampala and charged with corruption. Bwiso, a resident at Fortunate Guest House in Masindi municipality, Masindi district has …
Read More »Ssegirinya, Ssewanyana plead with court for temporary release
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The jailed Makindye West Member of parliament, Allan Ssewanyana and his Kawempe North counterpart, Muhammad Ssegirinya have pleaded with the Masaka Grade One Magistrate, Christine Nantege to enforce their right to bail. The two legislators who are facing murder and terrorism charges stemming from a …
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