Outrage as Chief Justice Owiny Dollo goes tribal
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March 24, 2022
Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny Dollo’s name is trending at number one on Twitter. This follows his claims about the Kabaka of Buganda at the late Speaker Jacob Oulanyah’s home in Muyenga. Some social media users have termed his statements as tribal.
In a video making the rounds on social media, Owiny Dollo condemned the demonstrations that took place in Seattle, US, where the fallen Speaker, Oulanyah, was hospitalized.
The Chief Justice said that it’s only a wicked person that fights a person fighting for his life.
He further alleged that the ‘ethic leader’ of the people that demonstrated used a presidential jet to Germany for treatment.
“Some people demonstrated in Seattle telling a man struggling for his life to go back home (Uganda), Why didn’t they demonstrate when their Ethnic leader was flown to Germany,” said Owiny Dollo.
However, this website understands that the Kabaka of Buganda, Ronald Muwenda Mutebi, travelled to Germany for treatment using KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
The CJ’s comments have caused an extremely strong reaction of anger.
Court releases Luweero man accused of declaring Museveni dead
Ssekyondwa, a resident of Kabunyata village in Kamira Subcounty, Luweero District was on July 15, 2021 arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court of Luweero where a case of offensive communication contrary to Section 25 of the Computer Misuse Act, 2011, was read to him by the Luweero State Attorney, Ms Peace Bashabe.
But Ssekyondwa who has been on remand since July 2021 is finally a free man and reunited with his family in Kamira Sub County after the state failed to adduce evidence to prove that Ssekyondwa willfully and repeatedly used electronic communication to disturb the peace and privacy of Mr Museveni.
“The facts as laid down by the State do not reveal major elements of the offence such as repetitive communication, right of privacy of a person having been interfered with. For that matter, the facts do not reveal the offence under the law (Sec 25) of the computer misuse Act 2011,” Luweero Chief Magistrate, Samuel Munobe stated.
“The accused cannot be convicted on such grounds as doing so would be offending the able Constitutional Principle laid down under Article 28 Section 12 of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda as amended. The charges are dismissed and the accused lawfully discharged,” he ruled.
It had been alleged that Ssekyondwa while at Kabunyata trading centre in Kamira Sub County, Luweero District on July 7, 2021 using his mobile phone, sent messages to different people indicating that President Museveni had died. Ssekyondwa also allegedly used offensive and abusive words that accompanied the messages.
Although Ssekyondwa had pleaded guilty to the charges when he was first arraigned in court, the trial magistrate explained and guided that a conviction cannot be scured based on a defective charge sheet.
