Peace Abiko

Law.Books.Rule of law

[Peace Abiko @PeaceAbby1]

@iam_johnmary @TheMutaD I can confirm that ‘’we are in things.’’😂

[Peace Abiko @PeaceAbby1]

@bumaadvocates @phillipwabwire1 @murungi256 @AdwetAlexandra Iam so grateful for this opportunity.😊

[Buwule & Mayiga @bumaadvocates]

Growth looks like this.

Welcoming our new clerkship cohort to the firm.

Here’s to learning, service, and building the next generation of lawyers.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said, “When you walk through a museum, you’re not just looking at art. You’re moving through centuries of people trying to explain love, grief, power, beauty, and belonging.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a museum described so beautifully.

[Fact @Fact]

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. - J.K. Rowling

[Peace Abiko @PeaceAbby1]

@NobertNuwe1 @MBaitwababo @TimKalyegira Our legal writing PA would be so pained.💀😂

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

🇵🇹💔 Cristiano Ronaldo was emotional after Portugal's exit from the World Cup… 😢

[Peace Abiko @PeaceAbby1]

@SBlairofficial Still potentially polygamous.😂😂

[jayne✿ @jayneiskool]

books are one of the best parts about being alive

[Smriii @smriiis_reading]

the books i read might be fiction but the emotions i always experience when reading them are the REALEST thing ever

[Peace Abiko @PeaceAbby1]

@GukiinaPatrick @Nze_Mutumba @LDC_Uganda @ug_lawsociety @JudiciaryUG May her soul in eternal Peace.She taught even in her last days. She was so loved.💔

[Thomas @Owishemwe]

The moment the law only favours those we deem fit we end up with a society where Waiswa Mufumbiro & others are behind bars for shady reasons. Never blur the lines, even those accused of murder have rights & they should be upheld in accordance to the constitution.

[frances🫧 @jhene__frances]

radio and weasel might have been one of the best things to ever happen to uganda.

[` @lisaawrites]

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

Part of having a big vocabulary is using words you don’t exactly know the definition of but for some reason you know you’re using it right

[Tolu Ayeni @TolulopeAyeni]

New watchers of The Big Bang Theory are stressful man

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

She was the book of Dostoevsky
And he was a lover of Franz Kafka

[Ryan McKeen @ryanmckeen]

The best lawyers I know read constantly. Fiction, psychology, history, biography. The courtroom rewards the broadly educated. The law rewards the curious. Read everything.

[Dean Natukunda @DeanNatukunda]

How many times must a court strike down a law before Parliament learns how to write one?

I spent this weekend reading judgments. Not as a hobby. As a citizen who is running out of patience and deeply concerned by judgements striking out these laws and saying the same thing.

The Computer Misuse Amendment Act fell twice in the same judgement. First, because of its words, "malicious information," "ridicule or demean", were so vague that no ordinary Ugandan could know, in advance, what they were forbidden from doing. Second, because Parliament did not have enough members present to legally pass it. Their own Hansard proved it. A law the government celebrated as Uganda's firm answer to the dangers of the digital age, killed by a quorum Parliament could have counted on its fingers before the vote was called, A similar issue dealt with by courts in the Paul K. Ssemwogerere Cases.

Criminal defamation had lived on Uganda's statute books since before independence. A colonial provision, inherited without question, enforced without shame. The court struck it down because civil law had always existed to handle the exact same harm, without sending anyone to prison. The less restrictive option was always there. Nobody ever asked whether it was necessary. They simply kept locking people up.

Then the military courts. The Constitutional Court said it was unconstitutional in 2021. The Supreme Court, all seven judges, confirmed it in January 2025 and ordered every civilian trial before a court martial to stop immediately. By June, Parliament had passed new legislation restoring exactly what the court had just buried. The President said Uganda is not governed by judges. Parliament, through that legislation, quietly agreed.

These are not difficult legal questions. These are not close calls or matters of genuine constitutional ambiguity. These are the same failures, in the same places, produced by the same process, year after year, while the institutions that could prevent them sit fully staffed down the corridor.

The Constitution was not read at the swearing-in and then filed away. It is a living demand. It shows up at every Bill, every reading, every vote.

Parliament knows this. And that is precisely what makes the pattern so difficult to forgive.

There is still Hope.
Dean.