By; Ben Musanje

One of the challengers of the Constitutional Amendment Act 2018 Male Mabirizi has filed his appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the verdict of the Constitutional Court. Mabirizi filed the 3066 page petition split in 150 booklets at the Supreme Court this morning.

He drove to the Supreme Court aboard a pickup with the voluminous petition. The appeal stems from a Constitutional Court judgment delivered by a panel of five judges at Mbale High court on July 26 where they upheld the scrapping of the presidential age limit.

The judges Cheborion Barishaki, Elizabeth Musoke, Alphonse Owiny-Dollo and Remmy Kasule all contended that it was right to amend the constitution except Justice Kenneth Kakuru who annulled the entire process of amending the Constitutional Amendment Act 2018 .

In his petition, Mabirizi raises sixteen grounds where he believes that the learned Justices erred in law while making their judgment.

They include derogation of the right to a fair hearing before an impartial court. Mabirizi argues that the judges erred in law when they evicted him from the seats occupied by representatives of other petitioners and placed him the dock throughout the entire and delivery of their judgment.

He also notes that the justices erred in law when they failed to state reasons for their decision not to summon the speaker of Parliament and wants court to grant him general damages for inconveniences as well as a 25 percent per annum by the respondent on the damages and costs among others.


Tuesday 14th August 2018 06:45:29 AM