MPIGI, Uganda: Justice James Ogoola Munange equated to a Temple of Justice, the nation’s ideal judicial system. Conversely, a musician, Ronald Mayinja famously equated Uganda’s justice system to a commodity reserved for the highest bidder.
But Mayinja’s commentary prudently avoided declaring a nation’s judicial system as being a Temple of Injustice. Now, in an interesting development, the Uganda judiciary stand accused of infamously denying an audience to a victim of landing grabbing.
This view, after the judiciary directed a victim to deposit in court thirty million shillings . This stance, as s condition to meet first before entertaining his griviences. Supposing it’s true, a nation’s judiciary favored a criminal and betrayed a victim of a crime. Interestingly, the victim of a crime is nation Uganda’s law enforcement officer.
Known as Richard Gitta, the nation’s law enforcement officer has for the last two decades diligently served under the Uganda Police. Imagine! A kibanja belonging to a law enforcement officer was reportedly grabbed and he cannot use the law he enforces and rescues the same.
Problematically, government pays the nation’s policeman a monthly salary barely enough to sustain him, let alone his family members. Therefore, a law enforcement officer cannot raise funds set by courts, and therefore retreated from the so-called Temple of Justice.
As he coils, Gitta is seriously perturbed and hurts as he rues missing out on a kibanja whose worth exceeds six hundred million shillings. His late father, Mzee Godfrey Sekagya, bestowed on him the kibanja in issue. Consequently, grabbing Gitta’s inheritance, turns him into a modern day biblical Esau.
His father died without reclaiming the kibanja whose grandfather had compassionately lent to a one Hassan Kasozi (HK), to strictly use to grow food for his and his family’s consumption. Measuring half an acre, the property is located in Wakimese zone, Kyengera Town Council, at least eight miles along Kampala-Masaka Highway.
When Gitta claimed the kibanja in question, HK told him that his late grandfather sold it to him. But the area Wakimese Local Council rejected HK’s assertions, and authored a report dated November 17th 2017, upholding Gitta’s ownership of the property under contestation. A Uganda Police Land Protection Unit under Charles Mutungi authored a second report in October 2021, cementing Gitta’s proprietorship.
The President’s Office based on the above-mentioned police report, underlining Gitta’s proprietorship. The President’s Office’s position dated December 10th 2021 was authored by a presidential aide known as Ssaalongo Hudson Senkaayi. A Mpigi magistrate, Robert Imalingat handled the case filed by HK, ruling in his favor.
Notably, His Worship Imalingat relied on an agreement attributed to Gitta’s late grandfather. The document bore no any witness from the late Alikadi Sekagya’s family to whom it was attributed by HK and Imalingat. The single witness who appeared on the document was HK’s relative.
Finally, not a single member from Wakimese Local Council witnessed the document, let alone stamped it. But His Worship Imalingat declared it as good as any other lawful agreement, even in the absence of a Handwriting expert’s report. Aggrieved, Gitta filed for a review of Imalingat’s verdict, contending that a mere magistrate lacked jurisdiction to try a land dispute whose worth exceeded five hundred million shillings.
A judge, Anthony Oyuko Ojok swept aside a valuation report duly tabled by Gitta, labeling it an afterthought piece of evidence , skirting a more serious issue of jurisdiction duly raised by Gitta. And Gitta cannot continue to pursue justice in courts because he lacks the UGX30M deposit which the so-called Temple of Justice wants paid first before handling his issues. But seriously probing, who will assist a nation’s diligent law enforcer to access justice? Watch this space
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- Mr. Stephen Kasozi Muwambi is a seasoned crime investigative writer, majoring in judicial-based stories. His two decades’ experience as a senior investigative journalist has made him one of the best to reckon on in Uganda. He can also be reached via [email protected]
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