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KCCA demands ushs950m as costs for case against UTODA

Gerald Businge — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:01:31 +0000

Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) is demanding 950 million shillings as compensation costs and damages for the case against UTODA.

The KCCA lawyers led by Caleb Mugisha and Robert Kwanza have computed the figures of the money they want UTODA to cough to them.

They sent the demand note to UTODA lawyer Abbas Bukenya and copied it to the high court judge Charles Mwanguhya who presided over the case.

The development has come at a time when KCCA has taken over the control of both the Old and New Taxi Parks after High Court in Kampala ruled that the case UTODA had filed against KCCA was erroneously filed as an application for judiciary review.

The court advised UTODA to file an ordinary suit to establish the validity of UTODA’s contract.

UTODA has managed Old and New taxi parks since 1993 when it first signed its first contract with Kampala City Council now KCCA.

Its contract expired on October 31, 2011.

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Justice Anup Choudry gets new house

Gerald Businge — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:46:37 +0000

The Anti Corruption Court Judge, Anup Choudry is all smiles. In fact his pals at the court say that the judge is smiling from ear to ear after he got a new house.

Justice Choudry has been complaining of staying in a small apartment in Kampala where he couldn’t even receive visitors due to the small place.

However the good news is that the Judge has now moved from the small and compact house in Naguru to a new house next to Minister Kiyonga’s apartment in Kololo.

The new house the minister has now has two dinning rooms, two bed rooms, four stores and a reading room. We hear Justice Choudry has turned this reading room into a library.

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Justice Faith Mwondah sues Daily Monitor for defamation

Gerald Businge — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:57:39 +0000

Former Inspector General of Government and currently a high court judge Faith Mwondha has dragged the Monitor Publications Ltd, the editor of Sunday Monitor and Emmanuel Gyezaho accusing them of defaming her.

Mwondha says she is aggrieved by the two defaming articles published in the Sunday Monitor newspaper in August 2007, indicating that she was fraudulently receiving two salaries, one as IGG and another as a judge.

She says that the said articles showed that government had commission an investigation against her and a report had been made recommending that she should be sacked and prosecuted for offences of corruption and abuse of office.

Mwondha is seeking for general and aggravated damages and also an injunction restraining the respondents, their servants and agents from publishing such false and malicious statements against her.

She also wants court to order them pay costs of the suit. Mwondha has filed the suit through Omunyokoo and Company advocates.

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Justice Choudry gets new house

Gerald Businge — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:42:05 +0000

The Anti Corruption Court Judge, Anup Choudry is all smiles. In fact his pals at the court say that the judge is smiling from ear to ear after he got a new house.

Justice Choudry has been complaining of staying in a small apartment inKampalawhere he couldn’t even receive visitors due to the small place.

However the good news is that the Judge has now moved from the small and compact house in Naguru to a new house next to Minister Kiyonga’s apartment in Kololo.

The new house the minister has now has two dinning rooms, two bed rooms, four stores and a reading room. We hear Justice Choudry has turned this reading room into a library.

By James Okello

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Court orders mental check on Uganda first son over defilement

Gerald Businge — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:40:44 +0000

High Court judge Albert Rugadya Atwoki has ordered for mental check up on Francis Binaisa, a former first son who faces charges of defilement.

The judge says his mental status needs to be checked before he can take the stand to defend himself.

54-year old Francis, who is son to the late former President Godfrey Binaisa is said to have defiled a 12 year old girl 3times.

The test was ordered after his lawyer Yunus Kasirivu told court that his client seems abnormal.

He is alleged to have committed the offence between November 2010 and April 2011

The case has been adjourned to the 20th of this month to enable him organise his witnesses.

Ultimate Media

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Museveni again cited in Basajjabalaba botched compensation

Gerald Businge — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:23:06 +0000

The high court judge Billy Kainamura has told the public accounts committee of parliament investigating the compensation by government that all the claims that were paid had been authorized by the president.

Kainamura who appeared before the committee in camera told mps that he got the letters for authorization of payment for different claims of compensation while he was still solicitor general of government from the former attorney general khiddu makubaya and there was no reason for him to doubt these letters that they were coming from the president.

Kampala business tycoon Hassan bassajabalaba appeared before the committee and said the president Okayed his claim of 142 billion shillings the loss of the contracts to manage city markets that caused government a loss of billions of money.

The chairperson of the committee Wadri kassiano says the committee will meet with the president to ask him about the claims before they make the report.

The president has disowned Basajjabalaba’s claims. Recently state house issued a statement and the head of legal department in the state house Joy kabatsi said that the President never mentioned a figure, either by word or in writing as a basis for Basajjabalaba’s compensation.

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