Chief Justice Warns PM Nabbanja on Interfering With Court

Chief Justice Owiny Dollo Chigamoy has responded to the theatrical act by Key Minister Robinah Nabbanja that occurred on Monday 21^st Oct 2022.

The Appropriate Honourable Premier stormed the workplace of His Worship Amon Magezi at Mengo Chief Magistrates’ Courtroom and chaired a televised assembly where she held his conclusions on just one of the scenarios to be null and void.

Nalule, a widow with seven youngsters received monetary assist from Mr. Bazaale amounting to seven million Uganda shillings and she failed to fork out him back as a result the intervention of courtroom to clear up the issue.

She was allegedly certain to indicator a sale arrangement of her assets which she claims not to have recognized the phrases.

Bazaale presented to increase her 3 million Uganda shillings so that the assets becomes his. Nalule refused this give because she was not prepared to shed her home.

His Worship Amon Magezi dominated in favour of Mr.Bazaale and sentenced Nalule to six months imprisonment also identified as civil prison on 18^th November 2022.

It really should be pointed out that civil jail is primarily a punishment for one particular who is unwilling to pay a personal debt but has the ability to pay back.

In the state of affairs ahead of us, the widow had the means of paying out by surrendering her property but she was not keen.

Key Minister Nabbanja following viewing information on Tv was intrigued and coronary heart wrenched that the widow`s plight is a duplicate of the many suffering Ugandans whose houses are getting taken by having her full residential assets taken due to the fact of 10 Million Uganda shillings.

With the attendance of legal professionals from the place of work of Attorney Basic, the press and His Worship Amon Magezi, she insisted that the judicial officer did not act in good religion, why he did not involve the LC1 officials and commanded the judicial officer to give reasons for his ruling.

It ought to be mentioned that whoever has a grievance with a courtroom judgment has a suitable to appeal to courts of greater jurisdiction like the Superior Courtroom, or look for for review ahead of the very same court that managed the make a difference.

Only events to a fit can assert to be aggrieved by a ruling and in case a third occasion is aggrieved, he or she can utilize to court docket to be additional as a defendant or plaintiff.

The finest determination the premier should really have completed was to aid the desirable of this particular issue, financially aided the widow to pay out off the debt.

It need to be observed that this is not the to start with time the executive is interfering with the decisions of the judiciary.

17 decades a long time back on 16^th November 2005, a group of gun adult males who later on arrived to be regarded as the Black Mamba raided the High courtroom in Kampala with the mission to re-arrest suspected members of Peoples` Redemption Army, a shadowy rebel outfit soon after becoming granted bail by Justice Edmond Sempa Lugayizi.

It is in opposition to this qualifications that Chief Justice Owiny Dollo Chigamoy is infuriated with steps of the Leading.

In a Memo, he has rallied all the judicial officers not to be intimidated and be ready to battle back towards intimidations from the likes of Nabbanja.

He vowed to protect judicial officers both equally in community and private. He has instructed His Worship Amon Magezi to generate to him in element whatever transpired so that he can see the most suitable way to respond.

The crudeness with which Key Minister Nabbanja raided courtroom was uncalled for as there were far better approaches of registering her displeasure with His Worship Amon’s ruling and undermines the independence of the judiciary.

There is an African proverb that when elephants combat, it is the grass to experience, let’s cross our arms and see how the main justice amicably intervenes in this saga.