Jomayi Property Consultants Ltd, once Uganda’s most prominent real estate company, has been sent into liquidation after being declared insolvent. The order to wind up comes after NC Bank failed to recover sh868,250,000 from Jomayi and petitioned the court to declare the company insolvent and unable to pay its debts. In 2018, one Ssemwogerere John […]
Former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighter, Thomas Kwoyelo alias Latoni has pleaded with the court asking it to forgive him for having married minors for “wives”. It’s criminal in Uganda for one to have canal knowledge of minors. International conventions also protect women and girls from sexually violent crimes during armed conflict. The LRA kidnapped […]
The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has granted bail to a Tik-toker Ibrahim Musana Commonly known as Pressure 24/7. The court has barred him from mentioning names of President Yoweri Museveni, Speaker of Parliament Anita Among and Kabaka of Buganda Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II as part of his bail terms and conditions. The social media […]
A Ugandan military court has ordered the release of 32 Kenyan nationals who were previously sentenced to 20 years in prison for illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. The decision by the General Court Martial (GCM), which convened late Wednesday, overturned an earlier ruling by a lower court. The GCM found procedural irregularities during last […]
The Head of the Police Criminal Investigations Department, Major Tom Magambo has revealed that they have what he describes as “very good leads” to who paid the killers of former Senior State Attorney Joan Kagezi Namazzi. Assassins gunned down Joan Kagezi nine years ago. Without revealing further details, Magambo told the Seventh Joan Kagezi Memorial […]
Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has asked the prosecutors in the Directorate of Public Prosecutions to always use lawful means to obtain evidence. According to Dr. Abdul Salaam Waiswa the Head Legal Affairs and Compliance at UCC, anyone including prosecutors can be a victim of cybercrime but it is illegal to intercept conversations without permission even […]
The High Court in Kampala has dismissed the case in which former Managing Director of National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Richard Byarugaba was challenging the decision not to renew his contract. The Civil Division Judge Musa Ssekaana on Friday dismissed the case on grounds that the decision by the Labour and Gender Minister Betty Among […]
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Thursday commissioned the newly built Supreme Court and Court of Appeal buildings at the Judiciary Headquarters in Kampala. During the commissioning, President Museveni congratulated the Judiciary and the government of Uganda for funding and putting up the two modern structures. “This was all done with the government money. It was […]
A Special Force’s Command (SFC) officer attached to the Field Artillery Regiment in Waza, Nakaseke district has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and 40 years for aggravated robbery. RA /239288 Julius Ecee appeared before the Division Court Martial of 01 Special Forces Group (SFG) of the Special Forces Command (SFC) for trial over […]
Masaka High Court Judge, Victoria Nakintu Katamba has convicted and sentenced two witchdoctors to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of sacrificing a one-year-old girl. Peter Makumbi Kiseegu (77) together with his accomplice, Denis Kabuye were on Tuesday sentenced to a life sentence for sacrificing Passy Mirembe. The duo committed the offence on October 23, […]