COURT; Judge Baguma Emmanuel: Since you received the evidence, let us proceed to the next stage. I earlier directed that, should you maintain a difficulty with legal representation, you be furnished with the list of 786 advocates on state brief, from which you were to make your selection. Have you made your choice?
1ST APPLICANT (Col. (Rtd.) Dr. Kizza Besigye): My Lord, I received the list at 6:00 p.m. yesterday. It is an extensive list of 786 advocates, and I respectfully seek the Court’s guidance on how best to make a selection from it while the underlying questions concerning our legal representation remain unresolved.
The Court is well aware that the charges we face are grave and complex, spanning events said to have occurred across four countries. Much of the evidence confronting us is technical and electronic in nature. It is therefore vital, in selecting counsel, that we understand the respective competencies of the advocates named on the list, so that, guided by those competencies, we may make an informed selection.
What has been furnished to us is limited to the advocates’ names, years of enrolment, the jurisdictions or areas in which they practise, and their telephone contacts. This does not disclose their competencies. I accordingly seek the Court’s guidance on how we may be enabled to ascertain those competencies so as to make a proper selection.
Having said that, I wish to reiterate our earlier submission: the legal team we had is one in whose competence we placed full confidence, and which remains available to represent us in this matter once the concerns touching upon its members’ security have been resolved.
Those concerns are the subject of Application No. 248, presently before the High Court. At our last appearance, Your Lordship undertook to ascertain its status. It was filed last month and bears directly upon the matter now before this Court.
Finally, My Lord, it would be an injustice to the people of Uganda to bear the cost of counsel on our behalf when we are able and willing to meet the requirements of counsel of our own choosing — the more so in these hard times, when people are dying of hunger.
This “Setongo guy” who claims to be a son to late Paulo Kafero who DNA threw out had to sing one of his popular song to prove he is a biological son to him.
If you are not ready to have a baby, WEAR A CONDOM.
Or, ABSTAIN during her fertile period.
Don't force a woman to get an implant, a coil or hormonal pills to cover your sexual convenience and primitive cravings.
I didn't choose any side. I burnt out. Right infront of cameras. I got intense PTSD. I gave my life to journalism at 15. I have fought the good fight of good governance for all those years. I chose to retreat. To study. To do the things I am good at. The things I can manage.
PHOTOS: Armed soldiers are on guard outside the headquarters of Daily Monitor newspaper in Namuwongo, Kampala.
The offices remain under military siege following an order by President Museveni's son and military chief Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba to shut down Nation Media Group (NMG) Uganda outlets.
A similar siege has been reported at the NTV and Spark TV broadcast centre at Serena Hotel since around 12am on Sunday, where military officials have since taken the stations off air.
Other affected outlets include Dembe FM, KFM, and The East African, all under NMG.
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