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According to her, Justice Wabwire failed to determine her petition on merits thereby, derogating her rights to a fair hearing.
She goes ahead to accuse the judge of ‘‘striking off 28 of her affidavits in support of her petition from the record for contravening section 3 of the Illiterates Protection Act.’’
Justice Anthony Wabwire on 30th August dismissed Ms Ssentamu’s petition on technicality. He agreed with the legal team of Ms Nayebale that Betty Ssentamu did not pay the filing fees of Shs150, 000 in time.
Apparently she only paid Shs100,000, contrary to the law.
Meanwhile, on 13th September, in her petition She faults the judge for holding her liable for the mistake of her lawyer who failed to pay sufficient filing fees. This gradually led to the dismissal of her petition.
For this matter, Ssentamu has also asked court to allow her pay her fill filling fees through her lawyers.
She is being represented by Lukwago & Co. Advocates. They say Ms Nayebale was wrongly declared winner.
According to them, the elections were marred with irregularities that heavily affected the outcome.
The electoral commission declared Ms. Nayebare winner with 30,253 votes while Bobi Wine’s sister came in second with 22,657 votes.
For this reason Ms. Nayebare was declardy Gomba District Woman MP representative. There have been a number of petitions lately in court regarding elections but court has dismissed most of them.
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