Supreme Court to hear application seeking to have Kadaga quizzed over age limit fracas

The Supreme Court has set December 12 as the date on which it will hear an application through which one of the petitioners wants Speaker Rebecca Kadaga summoned over the age limit case.

According to the hearing notice by the court’s Deputy Registrar, Godfrey Anguandia Opifeni, the Attorney General has been listed as a respondent.

“Take notice that this Honorable court shall be moved on the 12th day of December 2018 at 9:30 in the fore/afternoon or soon thereafter as the applicant herein can be heard on an application for orders that the applicant be allowed to adduce additional evidence by way of oral examination of Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga and the speaker be summoned to appear before this court on an appropriate date and time, for examination by the applicant,” reads in part the notice.

Lawyer Male Mabirizi, who is one of the petitioners in the age limit case filed an application before the Supreme Court seeking to have Kadaga summoned and cross-examined over her role in the fracas that happened in parliament during the debate and passing of the age limit bill.

  Male Mabirizi wants to quiz speaker Kadaga on her role in the fracas sorounding debating and passing of the age limit bill by parliament last year.

Mabirizi, who represents himself in the case says that the Speaker of Parliament was at the centre of all the controversies surrounding the enactment of the age limit act and should have been quizzed by the Constitutional Court during the hearing of the petition in Mbale but it never happened.

“The conspicuous absence of an affidavit from the Speaker of Parliament who presided over all the processes resulting into the disputed law, in which process she took several decisions which are now under challenge put me on notice that there was a deliberate plan to deny me the evidence which would be so essential in determination of the petition, then before the lower court,”Mabirizi says in his application to the Supreme Court.

Mabirizi now wants court to summon Kadaga to answer questions from the petitioners during the hearing of the age limit appeal in regards debating and passing of the bill last year.

A group of three parties including the Uganda Law Society, lawyer Male Mabirizi and 11 MPs led by Winnie are challenging the Constitutional Court judgment on the removal of presidential age limit from the Constitution and a panel of seven justices of the Supreme Court will hear the consolidated appeal in two days between January 15 and 16 next year.

 

 

 

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