Nankabirwa loses Simba radio case
DEFENCE state minister Ruth Nankabirwa has lost a defamation case against Radio Simba.<br>Justice Gideon Tinyinondi dismissed the case and ordered her to pay costs to the station and David Bwante Kasibante, a Kiboga resident.
By Hillary Nsambu
DEFENCE state minister Ruth Nankabirwa has lost a defamation case against Radio Simba.
Justice Gideon Tinyinondi dismissed the case and ordered her to pay costs to the station and David Bwante Kasibante, a Kiboga resident.
The minister had accused the station of implying that she had misused her position and was therefore unfit to be a leader during a programme known as Olutindo (bridge) in March 2002.
Nankabirwa, who is also the Kiboga district Woman MP, had also asked the court to permanently restrain the radio and Kasibante from uttering further defamatory statements against her in future.
She, however, denied that she beat up Kasibante on allegations that he voted during the LC5 chairperson polls in Kiboga yet he hailed from Mubende district.
The court agreed with Mathias Ssekatawa, the defendants’ lawyer, that the words used during the talk-show were not defamatory.
It added that the attitude the minister exhibited at Kambugu, where she allegedly ordered one of her bodyguards to call the Police, confirmed the defence’s argument.
DEFENCE state minister Ruth Nankabirwa has lost a defamation case against Radio Simba.
Justice Gideon Tinyinondi dismissed the case and ordered her to pay costs to the station and David Bwante Kasibante, a Kiboga resident.
The minister had accused the station of implying that she had misused her position and was therefore unfit to be a leader during a programme known as Olutindo (bridge) in March 2002.
Nankabirwa, who is also the Kiboga district Woman MP, had also asked the court to permanently restrain the radio and Kasibante from uttering further defamatory statements against her in future.
She, however, denied that she beat up Kasibante on allegations that he voted during the LC5 chairperson polls in Kiboga yet he hailed from Mubende district.
The court agreed with Mathias Ssekatawa, the defendants’ lawyer, that the words used during the talk-show were not defamatory.
It added that the attitude the minister exhibited at Kambugu, where she allegedly ordered one of her bodyguards to call the Police, confirmed the defence’s argument.