{UAH} TERRORISM ACT TARGETED THE OPPOSITIONISTS
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The new anti-terrorism law gives Kayihura powers to freeze someone's Bank Account or seize their property if they suspect they are involved in terrorism activities.
This again will be abused like the Public Order Management Act. ..............
Those who rushed to pass the law were targeting Amama Mbabazi but this may backfire on them. Ugandans never learn from history, they behave like stones.
It came with lots of changes from the one that existed as 2002 Anti-Terrorism Amendment Act, which came into force just after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
In what appeared to be a game of panic and urgency, the country's Speaker of Parliament was coerced to summoned the members of the house to reconvene and discuss the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2015. The JPAM declaration to contest for the top job exacerbated the situation.
According to a source privy to the new bill, it has some clauses that can tame Mbabazi and other opposition to only operate on limited resources. Specifically, Clause 1 of the new Bill intended to amend section 2 (Interpretation) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2002 that included the definitions of funds and services.
Clause 1 reads: "Funds includes assets of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, however acquired, and legal documents or instruments in any form, including electronic or digital, evidencing title to, or interest in such assets, including, but not limited to, bank credits, travellers cheques, bank cheques, money orders, shares, securities, bonds, drafts, and letters of credit ."
Whilst Clause 2 attempted to replace subsection (1) of section 7 of the principal Act, the effect of which prescribe the penalty for persons engaging in terrorism. The same Clause 2 further tended to amend section ( 2) of the principal Act, that expanded the definition of an act of terrorism, to accommodate international organizations, and tended to amend subsections (2)b),c) and (e) to penalise indirect involvement in acts of terrorism.
Additionally, clause 2 also said to have replaced section 2)d) of the principal Act that included the collection of funds or services and section 2)h) was amended to criminalize the providing of weapons to terrorist organizations and to inserted an additional acts of terrorism.
The Clause 3 of the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2015 intended to insert a new section 9A in the principal Act that created the offence of terrorist financing and now prescribes appropriate penalties. Then Clause 4 included some new sections 17A and 17B in the principal Act that provide for freezing, seizure and forfeiture of funds or property reasonably linked or intends to be used for terrorist activities.
Whereas, Clause 5 included a new section 32A in the principal Act, which empowers the Minister to make regulations for the better carrying out of the purposes and provisions of the Act. Another Clause 6 provided for an amendment to the principal Act to substituted for all references to money" wherever they appear, the word funds. The Acts of Terrorism included "(b) direct or indirect involvement or complicity in the murder, kidnapping, abducting, maiming or attack, whether actual, attempted or threatened, on the person, official premises, private." "Causing Serious damage to property; releasing any dangerous, hazardous, toxic or radioactive substance or microbial or other biological agents or toxins into the environment; interfering with an electronic system resulting in the disruption of the provision of communication, financial, transport or other essential or emergency services;"
The punishment for anyone convicted on terrorism related charges is also going to be equally tough. "(4) A person who commits an offence under this section is, on conviction, liable to imprisonment for twenty years or to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand currency points, or both."
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-- This again will be abused like the Public Order Management Act. ..............
Those who rushed to pass the law were targeting Amama Mbabazi but this may backfire on them. Ugandans never learn from history, they behave like stones.
It came with lots of changes from the one that existed as 2002 Anti-Terrorism Amendment Act, which came into force just after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
In what appeared to be a game of panic and urgency, the country's Speaker of Parliament was coerced to summoned the members of the house to reconvene and discuss the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2015. The JPAM declaration to contest for the top job exacerbated the situation.
According to a source privy to the new bill, it has some clauses that can tame Mbabazi and other opposition to only operate on limited resources. Specifically, Clause 1 of the new Bill intended to amend section 2 (Interpretation) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2002 that included the definitions of funds and services.
Clause 1 reads: "Funds includes assets of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, however acquired, and legal documents or instruments in any form, including electronic or digital, evidencing title to, or interest in such assets, including, but not limited to, bank credits, travellers cheques, bank cheques, money orders, shares, securities, bonds, drafts, and letters of credit ."
Whilst Clause 2 attempted to replace subsection (1) of section 7 of the principal Act, the effect of which prescribe the penalty for persons engaging in terrorism. The same Clause 2 further tended to amend section ( 2) of the principal Act, that expanded the definition of an act of terrorism, to accommodate international organizations, and tended to amend subsections (2)b),c) and (e) to penalise indirect involvement in acts of terrorism.
Additionally, clause 2 also said to have replaced section 2)d) of the principal Act that included the collection of funds or services and section 2)h) was amended to criminalize the providing of weapons to terrorist organizations and to inserted an additional acts of terrorism.
The Clause 3 of the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2015 intended to insert a new section 9A in the principal Act that created the offence of terrorist financing and now prescribes appropriate penalties. Then Clause 4 included some new sections 17A and 17B in the principal Act that provide for freezing, seizure and forfeiture of funds or property reasonably linked or intends to be used for terrorist activities.
Whereas, Clause 5 included a new section 32A in the principal Act, which empowers the Minister to make regulations for the better carrying out of the purposes and provisions of the Act. Another Clause 6 provided for an amendment to the principal Act to substituted for all references to money" wherever they appear, the word funds. The Acts of Terrorism included "(b) direct or indirect involvement or complicity in the murder, kidnapping, abducting, maiming or attack, whether actual, attempted or threatened, on the person, official premises, private." "Causing Serious damage to property; releasing any dangerous, hazardous, toxic or radioactive substance or microbial or other biological agents or toxins into the environment; interfering with an electronic system resulting in the disruption of the provision of communication, financial, transport or other essential or emergency services;"
The punishment for anyone convicted on terrorism related charges is also going to be equally tough. "(4) A person who commits an offence under this section is, on conviction, liable to imprisonment for twenty years or to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand currency points, or both."
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
---Theodore Roosevelt
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