CORRIDORS OF POWER

Oct 13, 2009

<b>They said it: </b><br><br>“I dismiss the petition with costs. He is not entitled to any of the declarations or remedies sought,” Judge Alice Mpagi Bahigeine, dismissing Major General James Kazini’s appeal to the Constitutional Court, not to be

They said it:

“I dismiss the petition with costs. He is not entitled to any of the declarations or remedies sought,” Judge Alice Mpagi Bahigeine, dismissing Major General James Kazini’s appeal to the Constitutional Court, not to be tried by the Court Martial.

“You must never take instructions on how to decide cases. You must be courageous in executing your work and resolute in dealing with those who want to interfere with it,” Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki advising magistrates.

“I hear people saying that Banyoro are going to chase away Bafuruki. There is no one who is going to chase away Bafuruki in Bunyoro because some of them rightly acquired their land,” President Yoweri Museveni, attending a thanksgiving ceremony at Rushoroza Church in Kabale over the weekend.

“There should be no room in public service for the idle, malingerers or abusers of office. Mr. President, Uganda will support and applaud you if you start weeding out those near you, otherwise the public will despair if your bold condemnation of corruption is not followed by immediate and effective actions of discipline, dismissal and if evidence is shown, removal from office,” Supreme Court Judge George Kanyeihamba, speaking at the second annual rule of law day at Serena Hotel in Kampala.

“I urge my brothers from Kenya to concentrate on issues that benefit the two countries. We do not have enough food and we are wasting time inciting violence over a small island,” Uganda’s state minister for internal affairs Matia Kasaija, refuting allegations in the Kenyan press that Uganda had deployed soldiers on Migingo.

“Currently, our people are demanding better quality leadership since we have failed them in the past. If we do not change, they will change us,” energy minister Hilary Onek, to his fellow leaders of Acholi.

“I am saying that if the wife takes a man to court that he has been habitually having sex with three goats for a year, then the judge can say get a divorce. If he did it once he can say it was a mistake,” law expert Professor John Kakooza, explaining some of the articles in the Marriage and Divorce Bill.

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