Bad Black responds to police summons, at CID to answer for insulting the President

By NBS UNCUT Team

Shanita Namuyimbwa, better known as Bad Black, is currently at the CID headquarters to answer summons to answer to charges of "offensive communication" and "criminal libel" as the two are respectively spelt out in the Computer Misuse Act and the Penal Code Act. The CID headquarters are in Kibuli.

Bad Black received the summons from the Deputy Director of CID, Joseph Obwona to appear at the headquarters of Police’s investigative unit without fail this week by Wednesday, 27th, 2019.

“We are investigating a case of offensive communication and criminal libel. You are therefore, in pursuance of the Provisions of Section 27A of the Police Act (as amended), required to report before the Acting Commissioner of Police (in charge of Media Department)….at CID Headquarters… on Wednesday 27th, 2019… without fail” the summons reads in part.

Bad Black reportedly released a video on her Facebook wall in August 2018 at the height of the Arua by-elections excitement that saw several legislators including Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine arrested. In her heat of the moment video condemning the arrest of the musician and other opposition party members and supporters, Bad Black reportedly accused President Yoweri Museveni of misrule among other outbursts. She quickly took down the video and apologised.

Bad Black has appeared at the CID headquarters in the company of her lawyer for questioning.

She becomes the third person facing criminal charges for ‘insulting the president’ –after former Makerere researcher Stella Nyanzi who is still incarcerated as the hearing of her case continues, as well as one Susan Namata who was charged with using social media to threaten to hit the president with her genitals.

The socialite first came to public attention as she spent money lavishly at various Kampala hotspots in the early 2000s. She was at the time closely associated with Meddie Ssentongo. The couple would later fall out and be exposed as having obtained the money by fraudulent means.