Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 24 2021
Summary
Lawyer Male Mabirizi had wanted the head of the court to step down, citing a conflict of interest.
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Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo yesterday declined to step aside from hearing the presidential election petition filed by Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, challenging President Museveni’s election.
Mr Male Mabirizi, a lawyer, had filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo to withdraw from hearing the presidential election petition against Mr Museveni on account of the conflict of interest.
Mr Mabirizi said the Chief Justice was President Museveni’s defence lawyer in the 2006 presidential petition, and thus cannot be impartial in this petition.
“If there is demand anyone with good intentions would increase the number of printers and stations or extend to districts,” said Mr Baker Akantabira, the UAERA chairman
Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 24 2021
Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo yesterday declined to step aside from hearing the presidential election petition filed by Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, challenging President Museveni’s election.
Mr Male Mabirizi, a lawyer, had filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo to withdraw from hearing the presidential election petition against Mr Museveni on account of conflict of interest.
Mr Mabirizi said the Chief Justice was President Museveni’s defence lawyer in the 2006 presidential petition, and thus cannot be impartial in this petition.
“I have perused the application and the supporting affidavits and listened carefully to the submissions by the applicant (Mr Mabirizi). I decline to recuse. The reasons I will give in my detailed ruling to be delivered on notice,” Chief Justice Owiny-Dollo ruled.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 24 2021
The order had closed a case which Simbamanyo Estates Limited had filed against Equity Bank (U) Limited, Meera Investments Limited, Luwaluwa Investments Limited and the Commissioner for land Registration.
Summary
Last year Simbamanyo Estates Limited and its proprietor Architect Peter Kamya had sued the four parties alleging fraudulent and illegal sale of their prime property.
Last month, the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) rejected rejected criminal proceedings against the property buyers and bank officials.
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Simbamanyo Estates Limited have asked the court to reinstate a case in which its proprietors are challenging the sale of its multimillion property as a bank moved to recover outstanding loans worth $10.8 million (about Shs40 billion).
Daily Monitor
Monday February 22 2021
Uganda s President-elect Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. He was declared a winner in the hotly contested 2021 election, extending his rule to 4th decade. Photo | File
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Bobi Wine had in his petition claimed that the general deployment of the army created a general atmosphere of fear and terror.
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Gen David Muhoozi, CDF
The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen David Muhoozi, in his affidavit evidence defended the mass deployment of the army throughout the country on polling day. This, he said, was after the police sought their intervention to secure a peaceful voting environment.
“I know that the general deployment of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces in the towns and villages in the country, was to secure a peaceful environment for the conduct of the presidential and general parliamentary and local government elections,” the CDF said.