Court orders for arrest of NRM’s Nusura Tiperu

The High Court in Arua has issued a warrant of arrest against Nusura Tiperu, the National Resistance Movement party candidate in the August 2018 parliamentary by-election.

Kassiano Wadri won the Arua Municipality by-election with 6,421 votes against Tiperu’s   4,798 votes, prompting the latter to challenge the election in the High Court but her petition was dismissed for lack of credible witnesses.

The court also ordered Tiperu to pay 83 million shillings as costs incurred by Kassiano during the petition but the same has up to now not yet been paid

On Thursday, the court in Arua ordered that Tiperu be arrested on sight for failure to pay the shs83 million as ordered in March.

“This is to command you to arrest Nusura Tiperu and the judgment debtor must pay the sum of shs83 million together with costs for executing this process and bring her before court with all convenient speed,” the court ordered.

The court also ordered that the warrant of arrest be returned on January 5, 2020, with an endorsement certifying the day and the manner in which it was executed or why it was not executed.

NRM’s Tiperu had cited that the election had been marred with irregularities including violence, intimidation, multiple registrations, voter bribery and denial of equal opportunity during the campaign period by the Electoral Commission that she said contravened provisions of the Parliamentary Act.

However, in his judgment, Justice Anthony Oyuko Ojok of the High Court in Arua dismissed the claims saying there was no evidence to back them.

“Some witnesses were confusing court by contradicting their testimony on the affidavit and while testifying in court,” the judge said in March.