Tag Archives: Constitutional Court

The Constitutional Court has this Thursday morning overturned the decision by parliament to remove Hon Francis Zaake, the Mityana Municipality MP from the Parliamentary Commission. The court in its judgment ruled that Zaake was illegally thrown out of the Commission (the top governing body of parliament) without a quorum. The judges also found House Speaker Anita Among to have had ...

Legendary media personality and Muhoozi project spokesperson, Andrew Mwenda, has apparently come out to reveal that he will challenge the Anti-homosexuality bill once the president of Uganda H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni signs it. In many cultures across the world, homosexuality is a sin and is considered a curse. Different countries have refused to embrace it saying it goes against their ...

Following the reaffirmation that the consent age for marriage is 18 years, the Constitutional Court has outlawed child marriages. The petitioners in this case were Mr Michael Aboneka and Mr Martins Kirya. They argued that some laws allowed child marriages of their daughters who are 16 years. This makes these laws contradict the constitution that demands that one has to ...

The Commander of Land Forces, Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has been summoned by the constitutional court. The court wants him to respond to a petition in which a lawyer accused him of expressing his presidential ambitions yet he is still a serving army officer. The court granted Muhoozi a 10 days grace period to file his defense upon receipt of ...