High Court has dismissed an application by two law students from Islamic University in Uganda-IUIU challenging the excessive use of force and lethal weapons by security agencies to disperse assemblies. The High Court Civil Division Judge Musa Ssekaana dismissed the application filed by Derrick Okello Wamboga and Joel Jerry Walyono when the matter came up…
The High Court Judge in Kampala has ordered Government to pay Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament, Francis Zaake Shs 75 million for being tortured during an arrest last year. Hon. Zaake was last year brutally arrested by police for distributing Covid relief food items to his constituents contrary to government guidelines aimed at controlling the…
Kampala Socialite Shanita Namuyimbwa alias Bad Black has written a notice to the Attorney General threatening to drag the Ministry of Health before court over an unpaid Covid-19 sensitization advert. In an intention to sue, seen by this news website, Bad Black through her lawyers of Musangala Advocates say, she was approached by one Ronex…
In an unprecedented move, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development has run a riot code onto the Permanent Secretaries of the Ministries of Local Government and Finance, sending them scuttling by sneaking to cabinet one of the most incoherent Statutory Instruments (SI) in the History of Government. This came as an utter shock to…
The Speaker Of Uganda’s Parliament Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga wants government to implement the copyright law to benefit musicians who she said do not substantially benefit from their work. Kadaga, who was meeting Uganda’s international music star Edrisa Musuuza aka Eddy Kenzo, said she had asked the Attorney General to explain government’s delays in implementing…
The Attorney General, Hon. William Byaruhanga has dismissed allegations of the impropriety acquisition of land in Kampala by Mesas Pine Investments as false and baseless. According to Byaruhanga, the allegations made by Kawempe North MP, Hon. Latif Ssebagala in December related to improper acquisition of school land in Kampala are false. “On 18 December 2019,…
