Vienna, Austria | AFP | The house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born is to be torn down to stop it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine, authorities said Monday after years of bitter legal wrangling. “The Hitler house will be torn down. The foundations can remain but a new …
Read More »Rodgers Kanti drags Lt.Gen Tumukunde to court
A political activist from Bunyoro Kitara Rodgers Kanti has asked the Constitutional Court to quash the appointment of Security Minister Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde, saying a previous conviction made him ineligible for cabinet. Kanti’s petition states that that Tumukunde was in 2012 convicted by the Makindye General Court Martial for a crime involving moral turpitude and …
Read More »Oulanya single again after court okays separation with wife Winnie
The Kampala High Court – Family division has ordered that Jacob Oulanya and his estranged wife Winnie Amoo Oulanya should formally separate. Oulanya is Uganda’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament. This after both Oulanya and Amoo amicably agreed before Justice Alexandria Nkonge Rugardya that there is absolutely nothing which can be done to redeem …
Read More »PLEA BARGAIN: 100 Mubende capital offenders to settle their cases
At least 100 capital offenders at Muyinaina Prison in Mubende district are expected to settle their cases through the Plea Bargain program this month. The inmates registered to enroll on the program on Friday during a sensitization visit to the prison by the Mubende Resident Judge Elizabeth Nahamya and the National …
Read More »Nigeria takes on oil giants Chevron, Total over ‘illegal exports’
Lagos, Nigeria | AFP | Chevron and Total on Friday failed to have a court throw out a case implicating them in the alleged failure to declare billions of dollars of crude exports from Nigeria. The US and French companies are among up to 15 oil majors reportedly targeted …
Read More »Pension scam assessors ask court to acquit Lwamafa, Obey
The assessors in the corruption case against three jailed former officials of Ministry of Public Service accused of irregularly budgeting sh88 billion for NSSF and paying it to ghost pension pensioners, have advised the Anti-Corruption Court to find them innocent and acquit them of all charges. The accused, then Permanent …
Read More »Judge pins city lawyer in sh15bn pension case
Masaka senior resident judge John Eudes Keitrima has taken the witness stand in a pension case in which city lawyer Bob Kasango with three former officials of the Ministry of Public Service and a high court clerk allegedly stole over sh15bn meant for 6339 pension claimants. Justice Keitrima accused Kasango of using forged documents, that were …
Read More »Pension scam case takes new twist as lawyers accuse each other
City lawyer John Matovu has accused colleague Bob Kasango of conniving with Public Service Ministry officials to defraud government of sh15.4 billion. Matovu made the allegations before Justice Margaret Tibulya as the hearing of new fraud charges in the pension scam case resumed at the Anti-Corruption Court on Wednesday. New fraud charges were placed on Public Service …
Read More »Court okays UNRA ex-employees case
High Court in Kampala has given the go ahead to 151 ex- employees of the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) to sue their former employer for alleged wrongful dismissal. The court’s deputy registrar Alex Ajiji ordered that since all the 151 former employees have one common cause and interest against UNRA, …
Read More »LC1 chairman petitions Constitutional Court on age limits
The Local Council (LC) 1 chairperson of Muyenga Hill village Yasin Omar has petitioned the Constitutional Court challenging several articles of the constitution relating to mandatory retirement of public servants and political figures on attaining stipulated age limits. Omar wants court to declare that it’s unconstitutional to lock out the youth who have not yet attained the …
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