MPs’ murder case to be dismissed.

By: T. Mwajuma Twaha Adams

Ssegirinya, Ssewanyana’s murder case to be dismissed. Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny- Dollo has vowed to ask for dismissal of the murder case against Kawempe North MP Muhammad Ssegirinya and Makindye west legislator Allan Ssewanyana.

Dollo said this during the opening of the new Law year 2023 at the judiciary headquarters.
He said the trial of the two legislators and their co- accused kicks off this year and he will ask a case to be dismissed if the State is not ready.

” This year the trial of MPs will begin and there will be no games. I will ask the trail judge to not entertain any nonsense during the trial. If the State is not ready, we shall dismiss the case” he said.

The two MPs and four other suspects who were arrested in September 2021 over Masaka gruesome killings.

Ssewanyana and Ssegirinya were arrested in August 2021 together with other suspects, Mike Sserwadda, Wamala Bulo, Mugerwa John, Wilson Ssenyonga known as Tony Nyonga and Jackson Kanyika and they have spent more than a year in jail for several charges including MurderMurder, attempted murder and financing the killings in the greater Masaka region that left 26 people dead.

Prosecution states that on August 2, 2021, they allegedly killed Joseph Bwanika, a resident of Kisekka village in Kissekka Sub- County in Lwengo District. It is further alleged that on August 23 at Ssettaala village in Masaka City, the MPs and their Co- accused persons killed Francis Mugerwa Kiiza aka Nswa, Sulaiman Kakooza and Tadeo Kiyimba.

The high court in Masaka set the 13th, 14th and 15th of February 2023 to start hearing the bail application.

According to the Hon. Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny- Dollo, the new law year is an annual function at which the Judiciary accounts to the people of Uganda, in whom judicial authority vests, for activities in the immediate previous calendar year. They take stock of performances, point out the achievements registered, as well as challenges and announce plans for the coming year.

PM Robinah Nabbanja during the opening of the New law year 2023 at the judiciary headquarters in Kampala today commended the judiciary for the efforts in fighting case backlog, law reforms and other positive initiatives.

Nabbanja also thanked the Chief Justice for implementing a number of transformative reforms in the judiciary.
” I am glad to know that the Judiciary streamlined the issue of bail by issuing bail guidelines Yoweri Kaguta Museven as presented by PM Robinah Nabbanja.