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By Onikepo Braithwaite Email: onikepo.braithwaite@thisdaylive.com Twitter: @TheAdvocatesTD I seize this opportunity to extend my condolences to the families of the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru, Brig General Tunji Olayinka, and all the officers who died in the line of duty in the military plane crash near Kaduna Airport last Friday. May their souls rest in peace. Amen. President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore and Freedom of Movement Before I go into the ‘Word for Today’, p...

Gumbo-Sherikat special court sentences 2 to death The Special Court for the Gumbo-Sherikat conflict in Juba has sentenced two convicts to death by hanging for their role in clashes resulting from a land dispute that left scores dead and others injured mid-last year.  On June 3, 2020, Lt. Col. Lual Akok Wol Kiir, since deceased and said to have been a relative of President Salva Kiir was involved in an altercation over land in the Gumbo-Sherikat area East of Juba city. During the ensuing melee,...

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.  Advertisement Police in Nsangi, Wakiso Distric...

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 ...

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.  Advertisement 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...

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—h...

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 s...

Daily Monitor Thursday May 06 2021 Anti-Homosexual activists march on the streets of Kampala carrying placards on August 11, 2014 to demonstrate against the recently annulled Anti-Gay law by Ugandas constitutional court. AFP / Isaac Kasamani Summary The new legislation also bans prostitution, which is already criminalised under the Penal Code Act, ostensibly in order to protect family unity and values. Clause 6 of the Bill proposes that indecent communication where a person by whatever means se...

Daily Monitor Thursday May 06 2021 Summary Parliament on May 3 enacted the Sexual Offences Bill, 2019, to consolidate legislation on sex-related crimes. The House deleted a proposal for withdrawal of consent by a partner anytime during sexual intercourse and criminalised sex between same gender. Daily Monitor’s Esther Oluka caught up with Kumi Woman MP Monica Amoding, who moved the Bill in her capacity as chairperson of the Uganda Women Parliamentary Association that sponsored it. Advertiseme...

The law criminalizes unwelcome touches under the guise of spiritual healing by pastors. “Spiritual healers who extend unwanted touches to their followers especially touch of the breasts, for girls and women or when a spiritual healer touches a person in a way that makes them feel uncomfortable,” Jacob Oboth, the chairperson of Parliament’s legal and parliamentary affairs committee said. The law which is awaiting presidential assent, also targets employers, educationists, health p...