Peter Mulira has erred again!

Aug 13, 2008

EDITOR—I ended my response to Mr Peter Mulira’s commentary entitled “The IGG has no powers to investigate a minister” by cautioning the unsuspecting public to take his commentaries on law with a pinch of salt. <br>

EDITOR—I ended my response to Mr Peter Mulira’s commentary entitled “The IGG has no powers to investigate a minister” by cautioning the unsuspecting public to take his commentaries on law with a pinch of salt.

In the article I quoted two cases, arising from the same facts—Kikonda Butema farm’s claim for compensation, where Mulira as advocate for the claimant filed his suits under repealed laws, but court permitted the proceedings to go on in order to achieve substantive justice. Both suits should have been struck out for being improperly filed. Mulira has ventured another commentary on the powers of the inspectorate of Government under the headline “extent of IGG’s power is not yet well understood!”

Although he did not fully cite the Leadership code act he relied on, it is very clear that his argument was based on the repealed leadership Code statute 1992, which has been repealed by S 40 of the leadership Code act 2002, which is the law in force now. Under this law, the Attorney general is listed as no.7 among the leaders subject to the jurisdiction of the inspectorate of government.

under the second schedule to the Act, S.3(1) provides: “The Inspectorate shall enforce this code.” S.3 (2) provides for the functions the inspectorate is empowered to carry out in enforcing the code; and there is no provision for any leadership code Committee.

The functions, powers and jurisdiction of the inspectorate are clearly provided for under the constitution, inspectorate of government Act, (Act 5 of 2002), and the leadership code act (Act 17 of 2002).

Raphael Baku
Kampala

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