Court summons Museveni, Mbabazi over sh70m debt

By Andante Okanya   

THE High Court in Kampala  Wednesday summoned National Resistance Movement (NRM) party chairman Yoweri Museveni and Secretary General  Amama Mbabazi over a sh70m debt  owed to one Daudi Ruhinda  Maguru, who wanted to unseat party  Chairman at the  delegates conference held  in  November 2010.

In his application filed on February 3,2011 through Rwakafuuzi and Company Advocates, Maguru states that he consented with the party to pay costs  of the suit  he filed challenging President Yoweri Museveni's  election as party chairman.

The application is against the party, its Chairman, and the Secretary General.

"The respondents be  ordered to show  cause  why the  National Resistance  Movement  should not be wound up and  liquidated in execution of  the consent judgment  arising  from High Court  Civil Suit  214 of 2010,"Maguru contends.

Court has fixed the hearing of the application for February 29. It will be heard by the Registrar in Charge of Court Executions and Bailiffs Isaac Muwata.

Maguru contends that the two sides agreed that the NRM would hold fresh elections for the leadership of the party within 10 months after the general elections of February 18, 2011.