Lawyers’ Petition Flops
Feb 17, 2003
A Constitutional petition challenging the hasty execution of two UPDF soldiers in Kotido as unconstitutional, yesterday flopped because the Attorney General's advocates were ill.
By Hillary Nsambu
A Constitutional petition challenging the hasty execution of two UPDF soldiers in Kotido as unconstitutional, yesterday flopped because the Attorney General's advocates were ill.
State Attorney Benjamin Wamambe told court that commissioner for civil litigation Cheborion Barishaki and Joseph Matsiko, senior state attorney, had been admitted to hospital.
Uganda Law Society (ULS) and a Kampala advocate, Jackson Karugaba, are challenging the eligibility of the UPDF's Field Court Martial that tried, convicted and sentenced to death Corporal James Omedo and Private Abdullah Mohammad in March 2002.
Originally, the ULS and Karugaba had filed their petitions separately but yesterday their advocates moved to court to consolidated them on the grounds that they had the same facts.
A team of five Kampala advocates, including the ULS president Andrew Kasirye and his predecessor John Matovu, will represent the petitioners.
Justices Galdino Okello, Joseph Berko, Alice Bahigeine, Stephene Engwau and Christine Kitumba of the Constitutional Court set the hearing for March 12.
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A Constitutional petition challenging the hasty execution of two UPDF soldiers in Kotido as unconstitutional, yesterday flopped because the Attorney General's advocates were ill.
State Attorney Benjamin Wamambe told court that commissioner for civil litigation Cheborion Barishaki and Joseph Matsiko, senior state attorney, had been admitted to hospital.
Uganda Law Society (ULS) and a Kampala advocate, Jackson Karugaba, are challenging the eligibility of the UPDF's Field Court Martial that tried, convicted and sentenced to death Corporal James Omedo and Private Abdullah Mohammad in March 2002.
Originally, the ULS and Karugaba had filed their petitions separately but yesterday their advocates moved to court to consolidated them on the grounds that they had the same facts.
A team of five Kampala advocates, including the ULS president Andrew Kasirye and his predecessor John Matovu, will represent the petitioners.
Justices Galdino Okello, Joseph Berko, Alice Bahigeine, Stephene Engwau and Christine Kitumba of the Constitutional Court set the hearing for March 12.
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