{UAH} KAYIBANDA'S LOYALIST JUDGES: ATTENTION TONY OWANA, DR KIPENJI, MU48.
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MU48/ Lt. Colonel Tony Owana/ Dr Owor Kipenji,
Apart from splurting out expletives, and pandering to the lowest rungs of human corruption and greed, can you please address the serious issues raised in this debate? Please don't write just for the sake of it. I never entertain idiots and have terrible aversion to nonsense passing as debate.
1. My assertion is that the Ugandan judiciary today is so corrupt and emasculated that it can no longer be regarded as a mechanism for dispensing justice. It dispenses a gangster's justice as can be evidenced in the numerous judgements it has delivered over the judiciary, which display almost abject surrender of judicial independenc, courage, impartiality and intellect
2. The Ugandan judiciary, especially its three top ranks are packed with cadre judges. 4 judges of the Supreme Court, including Katreebe, Nshimye, and Kavuuma, are card carrying members of the NRA, with Katreebe at No,28 and Kavuuma at No.34.
3. 4 Judges of the Supreme Court have worked as paid advisors in the NRA Secretariat
4. At least 3 of the Supreme Court judges have served terms as NRA MPs. Katreebe served as Cabinet Minister as well as Attorney General for more than 7 years.
5. Of the 55 judges of the superior courts, the Court of Appeal, the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, my last count shows that 33 of them are card carrying members of the NRA, many having stood and lost as aspiring MPs and were compensated or cajoled with judicial positions to lock them down in incestous loyalty.
6.Your hero kayibanda Museveni has side-lined the Judicial Services Commission, which used to be the appointing body for all judicial positions, as is the case in all other commonwealth or common law countries. Kayibanda changed the constitution in 1995 to arrogate powers of appointment of judges to himself alone, with the Judicial Service Commission having only advisory powers. Kayibanda has ignored all the recommendations of even this tame and largely rubber-stamp body and appoints judges as a reward or bribe, to win them or their tribal consituencies, or to silence them.
9. Most of the current judges of the higher courts, and especially Katreebe, Kavuma and Nshimye would be disqualified from holding any judicial position on the basis of bias or potential bias. In the UK, it is totally inconcievable for a former MP or former Minister to appointed to a judicial position. This would be a scandal almost of siesmic proportions- any government that did that would be removed from office.
10. Judges are supposed to be men and women of the highest intergrity, totally free from bias, or appearance of bias, even if it is only historic appearance, or appearance by association. A person or persons responsible for policies of a political organisation, to the extent of working in its secertariat and serving it as an MP, and in the case of Katreebe, even sitting as a member of Executive Committee of that organisation for many years, should never be appointed a judge under any circumstance.
11. Katreebe's law firm in Kampala represented Kayibanda Museveni in the election petition brought by Amama Mambadzi. Here then, we had the bizarre situation where Kayibanda employs his own Chief Justice to represent him in a case presided over by the same Chief Justice. It does not matter that Katreebe employed other lawyers to appear in court, what is important is that he owned or was associated with that law chambers. Katreebe law firm was being paid by Kayibanda and the Uganda government on the one hand as a private lawyer, and also paid by the Uganda government in his role as a judicial officer. I fail to understand why you three seemingly intelligent people see nothing wrong with this incestous arrangement?
Apart from splurting out expletives, and pandering to the lowest rungs of human corruption and greed, can you please address the serious issues raised in this debate? Please don't write just for the sake of it. I never entertain idiots and have terrible aversion to nonsense passing as debate.
1. My assertion is that the Ugandan judiciary today is so corrupt and emasculated that it can no longer be regarded as a mechanism for dispensing justice. It dispenses a gangster's justice as can be evidenced in the numerous judgements it has delivered over the judiciary, which display almost abject surrender of judicial independenc, courage, impartiality and intellect
2. The Ugandan judiciary, especially its three top ranks are packed with cadre judges. 4 judges of the Supreme Court, including Katreebe, Nshimye, and Kavuuma, are card carrying members of the NRA, with Katreebe at No,28 and Kavuuma at No.34.
3. 4 Judges of the Supreme Court have worked as paid advisors in the NRA Secretariat
4. At least 3 of the Supreme Court judges have served terms as NRA MPs. Katreebe served as Cabinet Minister as well as Attorney General for more than 7 years.
5. Of the 55 judges of the superior courts, the Court of Appeal, the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, my last count shows that 33 of them are card carrying members of the NRA, many having stood and lost as aspiring MPs and were compensated or cajoled with judicial positions to lock them down in incestous loyalty.
6.Your hero kayibanda Museveni has side-lined the Judicial Services Commission, which used to be the appointing body for all judicial positions, as is the case in all other commonwealth or common law countries. Kayibanda changed the constitution in 1995 to arrogate powers of appointment of judges to himself alone, with the Judicial Service Commission having only advisory powers. Kayibanda has ignored all the recommendations of even this tame and largely rubber-stamp body and appoints judges as a reward or bribe, to win them or their tribal consituencies, or to silence them.
9. Most of the current judges of the higher courts, and especially Katreebe, Kavuma and Nshimye would be disqualified from holding any judicial position on the basis of bias or potential bias. In the UK, it is totally inconcievable for a former MP or former Minister to appointed to a judicial position. This would be a scandal almost of siesmic proportions- any government that did that would be removed from office.
10. Judges are supposed to be men and women of the highest intergrity, totally free from bias, or appearance of bias, even if it is only historic appearance, or appearance by association. A person or persons responsible for policies of a political organisation, to the extent of working in its secertariat and serving it as an MP, and in the case of Katreebe, even sitting as a member of Executive Committee of that organisation for many years, should never be appointed a judge under any circumstance.
11. Katreebe's law firm in Kampala represented Kayibanda Museveni in the election petition brought by Amama Mambadzi. Here then, we had the bizarre situation where Kayibanda employs his own Chief Justice to represent him in a case presided over by the same Chief Justice. It does not matter that Katreebe employed other lawyers to appear in court, what is important is that he owned or was associated with that law chambers. Katreebe law firm was being paid by Kayibanda and the Uganda government on the one hand as a private lawyer, and also paid by the Uganda government in his role as a judicial officer. I fail to understand why you three seemingly intelligent people see nothing wrong with this incestous arrangement?
Finally,
PS
1. Lt-Col. Tony Owana: A level's in UK schools contain optional subjects such as Law, Sociology, Business Studies, etc. Most secondary school students who aspire to become lawyers start at a very early age- at 14-15 In in 2001, when I worked at the Commonwealth Lawyers Association in London as Chief Executive, we were asked to carry out a survey on Legal Education in the Commonwealth and commissioned legal consultants who came out with the finding that the quality of legal education had catrastrophically collapsed in most African commonwealth jurisdictions, with the standards of UK A Level Students being higher than those of both graduates and post-graduates from Uganda, Bangla Desh etc. Only Malaysia, and a few selected Law schools in India, Pakistan and India were comparable to UK standards. Ugandan undergraduates had very little understanding of basic common law principles and a majority of law graduates interviewed were not fit to practice as lawyers. If Katreebe understood common law principles, then he surely should have refused his appointment to the Ugandan bench, or at least exercised his right of recusal (refusal to sit in the case).
2. Dr Kipenji Owor, your claim that I am pretentious, dismissive, stupid, idiotic etc just goes to show how much you are an ignoramus in the law, if not in life generally. Independence of the Judiciary is one of the 3 pillars of Parliamentary democracy, and its key tenets have been painfully developed over the ages in Common law. if you spent just a few seconds googling the subject, you will immediately see clearly why political party aparatchiks, foremer government ministers, MPs, hangers-on and fellow travellers must never get anywhere near judicial office. I will give you one recent example here in the UK, of Mr Michael Mansfield, one of the leading UK barristers over the last 50 years. Mr Mansfield is left-wing to the core and has appeared in nearly all left wing cases in the UK over the last 50 years; from defending trade unionists, like in the 1980's titanic Miner's Strike that paralysed the UK government of Margaret Thatcher , to handling some of the most sensitive human rights and personal liberties cases the country has known. A few years ago, his name came up for appointment as a judge to head the Commercial Division that hears mainly Employment and Trade Disputes. Employers and Business organisations, as well as Conservative party officials all objected to his appointment, claiming Mansfield was so associated with left-wing causes that he would never be impartial to employers or to businesses in disputes with employees. Mansfield was forced to withdraw his candidature. Please read the link below to get some guidance on how the UK appoints its judges.
Courts and Tribunals Judiciary | Judicial Appointments ...
https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/related.../judicial-appointments-commissio...
The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) is an independent ... that selects candidates for judicial office in courts and tribunals in England and Wales, and ... the legal profession, non-legally qualified judicial officer holders and the public.
3. MU48. You have nothing to add to the debate, so better shut your trap. I would prefer if you consintunue to polish your trophy cabinet and marvel at your 48 skulls safely tucked in inglorious display. You are not up to my standard intellectually , so don't bother me with infantile ideas that go through what you call a brain.
Thank You.
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