Client sues UEDCL over Sigma
Jan 31, 2003
A FORMER employee of the United Nations has dragged the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) to court for allegedly publishing a malicious article about him in the press.
By James Odong
A FORMER employee of the United Nations has dragged the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) to court for allegedly publishing a malicious article about him in the press.
In a civil suit filed at the High Court, Sylivester Sebbabulya claimed that UEDCL published or caused to be published in the press on January 28 last year, a defamatory, libelous and slanderous article about him.
In the alleged article, it was reported that Sebbabulya, a resident of Kataza zone, Nakawa division, Kampala district looped power to a neigbour’s residence after Operation Sigma personnel had disconnected it.
Operation Sigma is a UEDCL initiative to reduce power thefts and the resultant revenue loses.
Through Katende, Ssempebwa and Company Advocates, Sebbabulya said the publication in the said article were utterly false, malicious, unfounded and calculated “to lower the plaintiff’s hitherto high esteem and integrity in the eyes of the right thinking members of society,†he said.
A FORMER employee of the United Nations has dragged the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) to court for allegedly publishing a malicious article about him in the press.
In a civil suit filed at the High Court, Sylivester Sebbabulya claimed that UEDCL published or caused to be published in the press on January 28 last year, a defamatory, libelous and slanderous article about him.
In the alleged article, it was reported that Sebbabulya, a resident of Kataza zone, Nakawa division, Kampala district looped power to a neigbour’s residence after Operation Sigma personnel had disconnected it.
Operation Sigma is a UEDCL initiative to reduce power thefts and the resultant revenue loses.
Through Katende, Ssempebwa and Company Advocates, Sebbabulya said the publication in the said article were utterly false, malicious, unfounded and calculated “to lower the plaintiff’s hitherto high esteem and integrity in the eyes of the right thinking members of society,†he said.