{UAH} Mbabazi case award has increased – lawyer
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Money-shake: Severino (R) says govt now owes him Shs 50bn instead of Shs 13bn
Twinobusingye says he will end up even richer if government does not cut its losses and pay him urgently.
"Ever since I was awarded the amount, it has been accumulating interests and as far as I know government owes me Shs 50bn," Twinobusingye said this week.
"That money is making money and from what I know I will be richer when my pay is due."
Eight months ago, court Registrar Elias Kisawuzi read out a judgment awarding Twinobusingye Shs 13bn, after he successfully challenged Parliament's power to force Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, and two ministers, Sam Kuteesa (Foreign Affairs) and Hilary Onek (Disaster Preparedness and Refugees) to step aside from their offices to give way for an investigation.
The matter related to allagations that the cabinet members were suspected to have taken bribes from oil companies. The allegations were first brought to light by Western Youth MP, Gerald Karuhanga.
When contacted for a comment, Attorney General Peter Nyombi on Wednesday acknowledged that the award was accumulating interest but warned Twinobusingye that the matter remained unsettled.
"We filed an application seeking to appeal out of time contesting the award. So, it cannot be said that the money is due to him," he said.
Whereas Nyombi did not defend Parliament's actions in court, he told The Observer that the award was beyond reasonable imagination.
"We have raised serious matters in appealing against the award and as far as I know I have confidence in it that it will succeed," he told The Observer.
Whereas Twinobusingye's case contributed to the development of constitutionalism in Uganda by explaining parliament's powers, several MPs regarded the award as outrageous. Lwemiyaga MP Theodore Ssekikubo raised the matter in parliament and put the Attorney General Peter Nyombi on the spot to explain and appeal the award.
Lubaga South MP John Ken Lukyamuzi concurred. Following this, the Uganda Law Society issued a certificate of incompetence to Nyombi for losing this case. Twinobusingye remains unbothered by public criticism of the excessive award, arguing that the only solution available to government is to pay him.
"If they want to avoid the cost going up, they should just give me the money but whoever has legal knowledge knows what I'm talking about," he said.
Twinobusingye adds that the Attorney General's pending appeal amounts to a waste of time.
"Judgment debt is property in the legal meaning and even if I don't enjoy this money during my lifetime, my estate will do. But, as I know this money will be given to me; you just watch the space," he bragged.
skakaire@observer.ug
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How can you pride in connivance to rob your own motherland when you you even don't need all that money? Something must be terribly wrong in the brains of this man. I can only wish him worst.
At that point the learned brother will regret every bit of his actions IF he does not repent now.
The State should not pay the crook all that money. Such arrogance! If you have Nyombi for an Attorney General, then anything can happen. Corruption is eating this country.
The Departments of The IGG and the DPP need to Investigate this matter deeply, they may unearth many false hoods by many Key Players in this? both this agencies need too take upon them in all Government related matters in court
And the chain is big...from top to some level and this will be used to buy suckets of salt for ignorant and poor voters in 2016.
My advice is that the judiciary should leave everything else for a week and revise this figure to what you people say is acceptable otherwise the figure could reach a trillion as we watch this space.
This guy robbed the NSSF by selling it a bogus land for billions yet it wasn't worthy it. Now, they have been awarded billions for completely doing nothing. That kind of money could go a long way to recuperate Mulago hospital, so that Nathasha M7 doesn't need to be flown to Germany for delivery and/or when she gets a cold.
What is wrong in asking Mbabazi, Kutesa and Onek to step aside from their offices to give way for an investigation? It's is their influence or the appearance thereof that gave them their desired results. We are dealing with crooks here. These are professional crooks and they are backed by their partner in crime, M7.
Therefore, we need to get rid of M7, otherwise, these Mbabazis and Kutesas will continue to rob us with impunity.
mugwanya ssali
Lawyers like my friend Severino make their living by filing dubious claims in the hope that the judicial officer will be either incompetent or corrupt and overlook the glaring errors in the claim!
Since under the Populist Mob Jury (justice) System, most of the 'criminal lower class' suspects, like chicken thieves are usually lynched; it is high time all the 'criminal middle class' suspects' are also lynched under the popular Mob Jury system.
Because, even the most contemptuous criminal will shudder under the terror of an angry mob. Such punishment will serve the greatest good for the greatest number.
It is better for one heartless criminal to be lynched, than millions of people to continue suffering because of his crime.
Otherwise, all the nonsense of manipulating the justice system in order to fleece the country, will not come to an end.