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Daily Monitor
Sunday January 10 2021
Any half-decent teenager in my village secondary school, after reading the preamble to the Constitution, will explain in detail why they think the Supreme Court made a horrible mistake in allowing President Museveni to run in 2021.
But it is us the old timers who will explain what it is that the learned justices were probably thinking.
On June 25, 2004, the Constitutional Court (justices Galdino Okello, Alice Mpagi Bahigeine, George Engwau, Amos Twinomujuni and Christine Kitumba) behaved like the proverbial fly that had no one to advise it and it, therefore, followed the corpse into the grave.
They had ill-advisedly and mistakenly laboured under the illusion that there is such a thing as an independent Judiciary in Uganda. So they ruled that Dr Paul Ssemogerere was right: the referendum on political systems was illegal and, therefore, everything done under it was illegal, since the referendum law had been passed without quorum.