Court issues criminal summons against Bobi Wine over academic documents
The Chief Magistrates court in Wakiso has issued criminal summons against Kyadondo East Member of Parliament, Robert Kyagulanyi, also known as Bobi Wine.
The criminal summons are in respect to a private prosecution case filed by lawyer Male Mabirizi against Kyagulanyi who is accused of giving false information, obtaining registration by false pretence and uttering false documents contrary to the Penal Code Act
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“You are hereby commanded by government to appear in this court on September, 16, 2020 at 10am or soon thereafter as the case can be heard,” the criminal summons dated September 1, 2020 say.
The case
Last week, lawyer Male Mabirizi filed a private prosecution against Robert Kyagulanyi accusing him of using falsified documents for nomination as he stood for the Kyadondo East MP post in 2017.
According to the charge sheet filed before the Wakiso chief magistrate’s court, Mabirizi accuses Bobi Wine of five counts of giving false information, obtaining registration by false pretence and uttering false documents contrary to the Penal Code Act.
“Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert on the 31st day of May 2017 at Wakiso district Electoral Commission returning officer’s office located at Wakiso, Wakiso town council at 9:56 am, you gave false information to the Electoral Commission returning officer for Wakiso district, a public officer that you were 35 years of age knowing that it was false and you thereby caused the returning officer to nominate you as a candidate for Kyaddondo East constituency Member of Parliament, a thing he/she ought not to have done had he known the truth,” the charge sheet prepared by Mabirizi.
The lawyer also accuses Kyagulanyi of giving false information to the Electoral Commission that he had completed the minimum formal education of Advanced Level standard knowing that it was false.
Kyagulanyi is also accused of obtaining registration by false pretence as well as forging documents, contrary to sections 312 and 351 of the Penal Code Act.
“On the 31st day of May 2017, you knowingly and fraudulently uttered a false document, to wit, a Uganda National Examinations Board letter of verification of results number V0006677 reference number EA/GEN/40 to the Electoral Commission returning officer for Wakiso district.”
