Mabirizi case against Owiny-Dollo for next week
Wednesday February 17 2021
Lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi (R) wants Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo to disqualify himself from chairing a panel of nine justices of the court that will hear the presidential election petition by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, challenging President Museveni’s victory in the January 14 election.
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Lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi has petitioned the Supreme Court seeking Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo to disqualify himself from chairing a panel of nine justices of the court that will hear the presidential election petition by former presidential cand
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Monday February 15 2021
William Byaruhanga
Mr Byaruhanga is the Attorney General, also known as the head of the Bar. He joined the Justice ministry in 2016 and has served as such since then.
One of the high profile cases he handled was the famous age limit appeal before the Supreme Court about two years ago and the subsequent reference at the East African Court of Justice in Arusha, Tanzania.
Francis Atoke
Mr Atoke is the current Solicitor General at the Justice Ministry, a position he has held since 2012.
He joined the ministry in 1987 and has since risen through the ranks and worked as deputy Administrator General from 1997 to 2009.
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Friday February 12 2021
Bobi Wine’s lead lawyer Medard Sseggona (right) engages Attorney General William Byaruhanga (seated) and other counsels (left to right) Kiryowa Kiwanuka, Edwin Karugire, Joseph Matsiko and Elison Karuhanga at the pre-trial of the presidential poll petition at the Supreme Court in Kampala, February 2021. PHOTO/ABUBAKER LUBOWA.
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Mr Museveni also submits that his re-election for the sixth term, that will take his reign to 40 years, was conducted in accordance with the electoral laws and therefore he was validly elected.
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The Supreme Court has given just two hours and 20 minutes to all the four parties to the presidential petition to make oral submissions for or against the suit filed by former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, who is challenging President Museveni’s election victory.
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Thursday February 11 2021
The head of Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), Ms Sylvia Muwebwa Ntambi, at parliament on June 15, 2020. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Justice Jane Frances Abodo has withdrawn corruption charges against Ms Ntambi. PHOTO | FILE
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In a January 18 notice to the Anticorruption Court, Justice Abodo withdrew 14 charges against Ms Ntambi, hardly three months after she was committed to the High Court for trial.
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The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Justice Jane Frances Abodo, has withdrawn corruption charges against the chairperson of Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC), Ms Sylvia Muwebwa Ntambi.
In a January 18 notice to the Anticorruption Court, Justice Abodo withdrew 14 charges against Ms Ntambi, hardly three months after she was committed to the High Court for trial.
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Tuesday February 09 2021
NUP president Robert Kyagulanyi delivers his new year address at his residence in Magere, Wakiso District, January 02, 2021. PHOTO | ABUBAKER LUBOWA
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The Supreme Court is sitting today to hear an application by former presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, seeking leave to amend the election petition he filed last week challenging the victory of the incumbent President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
A panel of nine Justices led by the Chief Justice, Alfonse Owiny Dollo, have convened to hear the application to be presented by Kyagulanyi s lawyers led by Medard Lubega Ssegona.
Also present in court are the respondents in the case who include; the Attorney General, William Byaruhanga, and his legal team, Museveni s lawyers Kiryowa Kiwanuka and Ebert Byenkya as well as the Electoral Commission s legal team.