Tuesday, June 8, 2021
By: Brenda M Fincher
Local rape cases involving John Stafford, an Airman at Mountain Home Air Force Base and covered by the Mountain Home News in 2014 & 2018 with no local court convictions have finally found some closure for local victims. Military prosecution was conducted by The Office of Special Investigations, who has been the Department of the Air Force s major investigative service since Aug. 1, 1948. The agency reports to the Inspector General, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. OSI provides professional investigative service to commanders of all Departments of the Air Force activities. Its primary responsibilities are criminal investigations and counterintelligence services. This was brought to our attention earlier this year and resulted in a guilty verdict in a third case in March of this year, dated back to December of 2018. Due diligence of resources and information has been completed and we offer you this information provided by US Milita
UGANDA –Â 18 handcuffed Bobi Wine supporters react after arriving at the army court in Makindye, Kampala. They were arrested on December 30, 2020 and remanded to prison on allegations of illegal possession of four rounds of ammunition, which offence the state says was committed on January 3, 2021.
After spending close to five months on remand, at least 18 out of 30 supporters of former presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine, were Tuesday released on bail by the General Court Martial in Makindye, Kampala.
While releasing the 18 on their third attempt to apply for bail, the chairman of the court, Lt Gen Andrew Gutti, said he had found merit in their application after the State prosecutor did not object to their bail.
Speaking to KFM shortly after the release of 17 on bail by the General Court Martial sitting in Makindye yesterday, Wameli said that they are yet to consider torture allegations and will come up with a party position on the issue soon.
The 17 NUP supporters are part of the 35 in detention and they were each ordered to pay a non-cash bond of Shs 2 million and each of their sureties ordered to execute a noncash bond of Shs 50million.
Their movement was also restricted to Kampala and they were ordered to report back to court every after 14 days.
Meanwhile,18 others including Eddy Mutwe and Nubian Li were further remanded to prison until June 8th, when they will re-appear for consideration of their bail application.