Award-winning Human Rights Lawyer Isaac Ssemakadde has asked Buganda Road Magistrates Court to halt hearing of the case in which he was summoned to be charged with offensive communication until the determination of an application where he is challenging the legality of the proceedings. Ssemakadde was summoned to appear before court presided over by Grade…
The Makindye Magistrates Court has remanded three people including employees of Joint Medical Stores on charges related to theft of government drugs worth 21 billion Shillings. The three are: Jane Frances Oling, the Executive Director Women in Development, a community based organization, and two employees of Joint Medical Stores – JMS, Ivan Luswata, a customs…
The interdicted Executive Director of Mulago National Referral Hospital Dr. Baterana Byarugaba, wants court to throw out the evidence and charges brought against him by the State House Health Monitoring Unit on the basis of lack of jurisdiction. This comes after the hospital director was this week charged with embezzlement, fraudulent accounting, abuse of office,…
Police have preferred charges of fraudulent accounting, abuse of office, embezzlement and causing financial loss to the government against Dr. Baterana Byarugaba, the executive director of Mulago National Referral Hospital. According to the State House Health Monitoring Unit, the above crimes were committed in the last four years and cost the government over 28 billion…
On February 11, businessman Sudhir Ruparelia won yet another victory in the Supreme Court against Bank of Uganda over the fate of Crane Bank. The central bank closed Crane Bank in October 2016 claiming it was undercapitalised. The latest ruling is a culmination of a running battle between the central bank and Sudhir for four…
Jailed lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi, has asked the Court of Appeal to have him released pending the hearing of his appeal challenging the 18 months jail term. Mabirizi was arrested on Monday near Kyambogo University following last week’s directive by High Court Judge, Musa Ssekaana, after finding him guilty for contempt of court for the…
The minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Planning Hon. Judith Nabakooba has intervened in Wakiso land grabbing saga. The matter is between Kuwe foundation and suspected land grabbers led by a one Kassimu Bainomugisha. In the letter to the Inspector General of Police Martin Ochola, Min. Nabakooba has decried of unprofessional conduct of some police…
The National Mental Referral Hospital in Butabika has tasked the Ministry of Health to reopen regional mental treatment units that were turned into Covid-19 isolation and treatment centres. Prof Kinyanda, the chairman board of trustees, said reopening regional mental care facilities will relieve them from the overwhelming pressure from the big numbers of patients. Prof…
A resident of Kekubo village in Kabale municipality has been sentenced to a four months imprisonment for disrupting the burial service of the fallen Bank of Uganda Governor, Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile. Mutebile, 72, was buried on January 30, at his ancestral home in Muruhita-Rwakatojo village in Northern division, Kabale municipality. However, chaos ensued when a…
