The arrest of the group came just a few hours after police blocked Kyagulanyi from holding a consultative meeting on his presidential ambitions that was scheduled to take place at Pope Paul Memorial hotel in Kampala.
Read more ...Mark Kimera, the Assistant Probation Officer Gulu Remand Home, says dozens of the inmates fled from the facility around 7:00pm on Monday.
Read more ...The charges were instituted against Okello in 2016 together with 17 others following a botched attack on Opit Army Detach and Central Police Station in Gulu District, which claimed the lives of two soldiers, four Policemen and left scores injured.
Read more ...According to Kalema, the closure of his stall was unreasonable and no reason was given. He argues that the closure was malicious and intended to derail his business, which he says amounts to economic sabotage.
Read more ...Prosecution told court that on the evening of March 29, 2018, Damulira was hired by his victim to take her home some miles away from Kanoni town. However, along the way, the convict pretended that he had run out of fuel in the middle of a forest.
Read more ...According to some eyewitnesses, the fire is suspected to have started from one of the shops at block C that housed over 40 sewing machines and clothes before spreading out to several other shops minutes to 6 a.m.
Read more ...Mutaasa Kafeero and Darfala Ssenjako were remanded to Luzira prisons by City Hall Magistrate, Fatuma Nabirye on Friday last week minutes after being charged with malicious damage to property and trespass.
Read more ...Mabirizi accuses Justice Ssekaana of misconduct and incompetence. This stems from the manner in which he handled a case challenging the appointment of Justice Simon Byabakama as the chairman of the Electoral Commission without resigning as a Justice of the Court of Appeal.
Read more ...Wameli noted that the said offenses contravene provisions under Article 29 of the Constitution mostly the one that talks about freedom to assemble and demonstrate peacefully. Wameli thus asked Buganda Road Court to halt the proceedings and refer the file of his clients to the Constitutional Court for interpretation on whether the offenses against them violate their constitutional rights or not.
Read more ...According to the statement, six of the sessions will be held at the Land Division in Kampala targeting 120 cases. Five other sessions will be held at Mukono, Mbale, Masaka, Mpigi, Kabale and Jinja High Courts.
Read more ...Their trial which was part of a special criminal court session presided over by Justice Stephen Mubiru was this afternoon adjourned after the session came to an end. Mubiru, the Resident Judge of Gulu, now returns to his duty station to handle cases within his jurisdiction.
Read more ...According to the judiciary website, six justices of the Court of Appeal currently have special assignments. They include Justice Geoffrey Kiryabwire and Justice Monica Mugenyi who were appointed to the East African Court of Justice and Justice Solomy Balungi Bossa who is at the International Criminal Court.
Read more ...The strangers, later identified as Darfala Ssenjako and Charles Mutaasa Kafeero jumped into the Chamber from the public gallery and disrupted parliament business as MPs debated a ministerial statement on the Land Information Systems Conference.
Read more ...In a statement, the Women's Pro Bono Initiative, an entity that provides legal aid to women whose rights have been trampled upon said that the computer misuse Act under which Bagaine is charged is being taken advantage of to censure women from speaking out about the crime.
Read more ...Lance Corporal Godfrey Okello Oneka, RA 213734 denied the charges while appearing before the Division Court Martial sitting at the 4th UPDF Division Barracks in Bardege Division, Gulu Municipality.
Read more ...Magezi was reportedly arrested by the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence in March 2019 together with another Rwandan National, Theogen Sendegeya. For more than 10 months, their whereabouts were unknown, as family and relatives couldn’t locate them in all gazetted detention facilities.
Read more ...Justice Mubiru, who started his criminal session last month, is supposed to close it this Friday and adjourn the matters he hasn’t been unable to conclude to the next convenient session that isn’t scheduled.
Read more ...Initially, the matter was before Justice Lydia Mugambe who was moved from the High Court Civil Division to the Criminal Division in the last transfer of judicial officers. Justice Esther Nambayo has now set April 1, 2020 to deliver her ruling after going through the case files.
Read more ...Justice Henry Peter Adonyo made the ruling this morning and ordered for the immediate release of the former Makerere University Research Fellow unless she has other pending charges.
Read more ...Kanyamunyu’s lawyers led by MacDusman Kabega contend that the Government Analytical Laboratory is incompetent since it isn’t accredited by the International Standards Organization-ISO.
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