Man kills wife, maid after botched rape attempt- police
Friday May 14 2021
Summary
It is alleged that Shaban Musisi attempted to rape his housemaid but she made an alarm which attracted his wife. He attacked the two with a hammer before taking poison in suicide attempt.
Article 123 of The Penal Code Act provides that any person who attempts to commit rape commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life with or without corporal punishment.
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Police in Nsangi, Wakiso District are investigating a case in which a man is accused of killing his wife and maid in a botched rape attempt on Friday morning.
Jonglei Civil Society Network chairperson David Garang Goc
The trial of David Garang Goc, the Jonglei Civil Society Network chairperson, has been adjourned until Monday, May 17, 2021, amid his lawyer questioning the court’s competence.
Garang, who was arrested on defamation charges had accused the state government of allegedly embezzling relief food meant for the flood victims in Jonglei state, was released last Saturday pending a trial on Monday.
However, Deng Akoi, the Bor County Court judge Monday adjourned the first hearing of the case.
James Kachuol, the accused’s defense lawyer told Radio Tamazuj, “My client was charged under Section 289 of the Penal Code Act, which is about defamation. Yesterday, no proceedings took place. As Garang’s defense lawyer, yesterday, I had an objection that a county court does not have jurisdiction over a defamation case. And again, the prosecutor was not there. So, those reasons led to the adjournment.”
Daily Monitor
Tuesday May 11 2021
President Museveni may not assent to Sexual Offences Act that was originally moved by Kumi Woman MP Monica Amoding (right).
Summary
The Constitutional Court weeks later struck down the law on a technicality; that it was passed without quorum.
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President Museveni has reportedly said he will not sign the newly-enacted Sexual Offences Act, 2019, into law, citing potential foreign policy implications, according to highly-placed sources.
The President’s thoughts, which come to light even before Parliament transmits the Act for his assent, follows high level discussions last week.
Senior Ugandan diplomats involved in the process reportedly informed Mr Museveni that the legislation, which, among other things, criminalises homosexuality afresh and sets 10-year jail term for offenders, was uncalled for.
By Henry Kyambalesa
It has become common knowledge that the Patriotic Front (PF) administration has often used sedition laws against some citizens who have attempted to exercise their constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and expression to critique the government’s apparent failure to address the catalogue of socioeconomic problems facing the country and the common people.
Specifically, Section 57 through Section 62 of the Penal Code Act that is, Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia have become a vital weapon against citizens who dare to decry the widespread destitution and clear-as-crystal socioeconomic decay and backwardness in our Motherland. The following headlines excerpted from a diversity of news sources are good examples of the use (or is it “abuse”) of sedition laws by the PF administration:
Kalenzi appeared before justice Kwesiga on April 30 and denied the charges. Thereafter, the state produced witnesses including the victim and a medical doctor who pinned Kalenzi. However, the case was adjourned to May 6 in order for the two police officers to testify because they were absent the first time.
But on Thursday, May 6, the police officers again failed to make it to court, prompting the judge to issue criminal summons against them. Before issuing the criminal summons, he asked state attorney Mariam Njuki if the duo was aware that they were supposed to appear in court. Njuki answered in the affirmative.