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We shall be there.
Hope the new sheriff in town over at @ODPPUGANDA will drive some major #DPPReforms. This country needs them desperately.
We can’t continue having a country whose jails are at more than 4 times capacity, with nearly half of the prisoners being on pre-trial remand.
The last DPP, Jane Frances Abodo set the bar so low. She stunk up the joint and is currently easily the worst DPP in post-independence Uganda.
Surely Mr Lino Anguzu should easily surpass her performance and go on to write his name as one of the stars of Uganda’s Criminal Justice folklore.
If he does, we promise to name a West Nile street after him.
#EmptyTheJails
This Wednesday, we are delighted to host the new @ODPPUGANDA Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Lino Anguzu. The conversation is simply an opportunity for the profession to meet him, to understand his journey, and to hear his reflections as he steps into a role that touches the lives of so many.
This is a moment to explore ideas. A chance to understand how he views the work of prosecutors, the importance of public trust and the direction in which our justice institutions are evolving. It is a conversation about leadership, service and the quiet but vital work that keeps the wheels of justice turning.
No office carries the responsibility of prosecution alone. It works alongside the police, the bar, the judiciary and the public. This week we look at that wider ecosystem and how all of us can contribute to a justice system that feels fair, accessible and worthy of the confidence of every citizen.
So this Wednesday, we open a thoughtful, national conversation with a man taking on an important public duty. We explore his perspectives, his hopes for the institution and his sense of what a modern prosecution service can be.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a discussion about justice, about the future, and about the shared values that hold our society together. The sort of discussion that happens only on JSC Conversations every Wednesday :-)
And us following from a distance, what’s striking is how routine procedural safeguards became optional, and how easily a life can be put on trial with an empty file. Whatever the judgment, this case should force a serious conversation on evidentiary standards and #DPPReforms.
In this summary of the Katanga trial thus far, the Sunday edition of the @DailyMonitor continues to live up to its billing of: “Truth Everyday”.
For some of us who have followed this case for two years now, it’s been an emotional rollercoaster with more WTAF moments than a Bernie Mac (RIP) set.
You have investigators saying they were called to investigate a suicide by shooting.
They showed up hours after the calls.
On a hunch, still unexplained at the end of the prosecution’s case, the investigation turns from suicide to homicide.
The Investigating Officer tells a Judge that he personally didn’t have any information to support change from an investigation of suicide to homicide. But he showed up in court to testify that she shot him.
Fingerprints on the gun or even GSR in nail clippings? Naah, those “got lost”, “you just gotta trust our DNA evidence that shows there’s at least three DNA profiles on the gun.”
GSR? Eeerrm, you gotta trust our PhD police expert who says he found no GSR on Mrs Katanga’s (independent) hands but he found some elements on one hand and others on the other hand so when you combine them, you find GSR. It’s a bit like saying you found water on someone by finding two hydrogen molecules on one hand and an oxygen molecule on the other. Fanciful stuff.
Asked by defense attorney Elison Karuhanga as to whether presence of GSR on someone is proof that said person shot a gun, Mr Jaffer Kisitu (PhD) said NO. Basically, “we went on a fishing expedition but caught snails”.
And then you have the dPP! The @ODPPUGANDA!
They were accused by Mr @elisonk of sanctioning “a very, very, very empty file”. And it’s very difficult to challenge him on that assertion.
Mrs Katanga was charged with the murder of her husband on Nov 21st 2023, a charge she got to learn about from her hospital bed in IHK after enduring multiple life-saving surgeries. She only recorded her statement in Jan of the next year. The IO’s statement also came months later.
The evidence the @ODPPUGANDA said they had and were gonna rely on wasn’t processed until April 2024. Think DNA, GSR, ballistics. And even then, all said witnesses told court they couldn’t really draw firm conclusions for either homicide or suicide from their own evidence. And that’s before the defense challenged the legality of said forensic evidence that they called “illegal evidence served out of a police kitchen” (read: forensics lab only licensed to conduct DNA paternity tests).
The defense has called some witnesses “ghosts” whose “presence in this case is only defined by their absence”. That was a real line used in court by defense attorney @jet_tumwebaze during a cross examination of a @PoliceUg officer who it is alleged played a significant role in the investigation but had left no proof of his involvement anywhere.
Same Jet Tumwebaze asked the lead investigator if she was rain for claiming to be in three places at the same time on a certain November 2023 morning when police searched Mr Katanga’s office, his residence and then IHK where Mrs Katanga was admitted.
As the @DailyMonitor article states, another scene-of-crime officer, Aisha Birungi told court that she took swabs from Mrs Katanga who she said was in the ICU, fully bandaged to her finger tips. She said she found her asleep and took all these swabs including buccal swabs without waking her up or talking to her. These swabs were then used in forensic analysis.
One problem though: the hospital provided a medical chart showing that the time this officer says she went to IHK and did all this, Mrs Katanga was in theater undergoing an operation and wasn’t out till late evening, hours after Aisha left. Also, despite her 38 years of experience, she left no trace of her visit; no signature, no pictures, nothing. Like an investigator ghost.
Anyway, Lady Justice Rosette Comfort Kania’s decision in this case will be read for decades.
Police and @ODPPUGANDA might have some reflection to do.
We need #DPPReforms
“According to the @JudiciaryUG, the average remand time is 2 years. TWO!!!
Accusations have become convictions.”—-@elisonk
We really need reforms in the criminal justice system.
#EmptyTheJails
#DPpReforms
I’m a bit late for this but it’s still going on and is an important conversation. Thank you @elisonk and your team for continuing to bring such conversations to the public.
“As he takes up this solemn charge, may he keep faith with the Constitution, to act always in the public interest, in the interest of the administration of justice, and to prevent abuse of legal process under Article 120(5).”—-Amen!!!
We are hoping for some major #DPPReforms!
Mr @AnguLyno steps into the leadership role at @ODPPUGANDA with very high praise and with the expectation that he will fix a bleeding criminal justice system.
We hope, again.
#EmptyTheJails
Congratulations to Mr. Lino Anguzu (@AnguLyno)
Today marks an important moment for justice in the Republic of Uganda. For the first time since the 1995 Constitution came into force, a serving career prosecutor has risen from within the ranks to lead the Prosecution. It is a victory for merit, discipline, and quiet service.
Lino joins a long and noble line of eminent jurists who have held that high office, including the late Francis Ayume, Peter Kabatsi SC, Justice Richard Buteera, and Justice Mike Chibita, but he stands as the first since 1995 to be appointed from among the prosecutors themselves.
I have known him for many years as a fine lawyer, a wonderful man, and a decent public servant. He embodies the virtues that sustain the rule of law: humility, fairness, and an unyielding sense of duty.
As he takes up this solemn charge, may he keep faith with the Constitution, to act always in the public interest, in the interest of the administration of justice, and to prevent abuse of legal process under Article 120(5).
The weight of justice and the burden of fairness rest now upon shoulders strong enough to carry them. May he preserve the dignity and independence of his office, and may God grant him the strength for the climb ahead.
For as Nelson Mandela reminded us, “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are still many more hills to climb.” So may each hill strengthen his resolve, deepen his wisdom, and lift ever higher the cause of justice in our Republic.
Congratulations, Lino.
This UgandaVsMollyKatanga case, if anything, has laid bare the inadequacies in Uganda’s criminal justice system.
My hope is that at the end of it all, it will be a cause for serious conversations around #CriminalJusticeReform.
We NEED comprehensive #DPPReforms
Every layer of this trial raises questions. Witnesses with questionable credibility, disputed forensics, conflicting expert testimonies, one must ask,in a case so riddled with inconsistencies, will justice ever truly be served in Uganda? Or are we watching procedure masquerade?
Abodo's service @ODPPUGANDA has been characterized by framing cases, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, remand of suspects for years without trail...her services have bred rot in @ODPPUGANDA ...I wish the new person will emulate the likes of Mc Dusman kabega
Staff “reflecting with pride” at Lady Justice Jane’s Frances Abodo’s tenure at @ODPPUGANDA 👇🏾
We NEED #DPPReforms!
H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa, President of the Republic of Uganda, has appointed the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hon. Lady Justice Jane Frances Abodo, the Principal Judge. Today, she appeared before Parliament for vetting.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) warmly congratulates Hon. Lady Justice Jane Frances Abodo on this historic appointment.
It is a bittersweet moment for the ODPP, as staff reflect with pride and gratitude on her exemplary leadership and dedicated service over the past five years, leaving an indelible mark.
She will be dearly missed by the ODPP.
May you continue to shine Hon. Lady Justice Abodo as you serve this nation.#ODPPUPDATE #ODPPUGANDA
Yes!! We NEED #DPPReforms
We NEED #DPPReforms
@KiryowaKk
@KagutaMuseveni use people who can balance the ship 🚢 on the waters of @ODPPUGANDA When you use extreme loyalists, you somehow create opposition with in the camp. At any costs use #SoberMinds
Let it be a 50/50 and trust me you will get the day.
We NEED #DPPReforms
@KiryowaKk
@KagutaMuseveni use people who can balance the ship 🚢 on the waters of @ODPPUGANDA When you use extreme loyalists, you somehow create opposition with in the camp. At any costs use #SoberMinds
Let it be a 50/50 and trust me you will get the day.
State Attorneys celebrating the fact that Her Lordship Jane Frances Abodo has left @ODPPUGANDA. 👇🏾
It’s not just the multitude of Ugandans filling prisons to four times capacity with no hope of ever stepping out of those walls.
She will go down as one of the worst DPPs in this country’s history. For now, she’s leading that race.
What a disaster of a dPP she has been!
She has charged people without evidence. Kept them on remand for years without trial.
Pretty much lied to courts at indictment that she had evidence that @PoliceUg didn’t have. See that Katanga case as an example.
Then political prisoners! Then poor people whose only crime is being poor.
As citizens, our hope and prayer is that a more justice centered DPP steps up and stands between citizens and the abuse of the criminal justice system.
We NEED #DPPReforms
Ayi Mukama!!! 🙆🏾♂️
We NEED comprehensive #DPPReforms and a complete audit of Her Lordship Jane Frances Abodo’s time at @ODPPUGANDA
She took a bribe to drop charges against Basajjabalaba—the Chairperson @NRMOnline Entrepreneurs League & Invader of CEC—and lied about it on air.
Here are the receipts.
#RadicalNewBar #NoGulag #NoApology
That’s why @PublicSquareEA and citizens who care about justice in the country are pushing for #DPPReforms NOW!
This is unsustainable.
If investigations keep falling short like this, then what’s the point? do we push for accountability now, or are we just wasting time and public resources?
Of course!!
We really need #DPPReforms and we need a proper audit of the police to prison system.
Lots of human rights abuse happening there.
That’s why we need #DPPReforms
The Molly Katanga case has exposed the ugly underbelly of Uganda's criminal justice system in ways that should alarm every citizen who believes in the rule of law. What we witnessed with Inspector Emmanuel Ogwang isn't merely prosecutorial incompetence, it's the deliberate
We should stand up and call on @PoliceUg and @ODPPUGANDA to play by the rules.
The role of the criminal justice system shouldn’t be to secure a conviction by hook or crook.
It should be to serve the ends of justice as envisioned in our constitution.
We need #DPPReforms
#EmptyTheJails
@TonyNatif With such people, no wonder prisons are over populated.
This country has reached the point even God can't have mercy on us anymore.
What we should all do is just wait for all of us to die and the last day to come.
Until perjury carries tangible consequences,the "invisible men" that Badman @jet_tumwebaze exposed will keep haunting Uganda’s courts and lies will be weaponized.
As you rightly assert,judges must jail perjurers to end this charade
#DPPReforms
#UgandaVsMollyKatanga
I honestly don’t know but the day a Judge locks up a police officer or two for lying under oath is the day they’ll start fixing this mess.
#DPPReforms are what we need. URGENTLY!
I honestly don’t know but the day a Judge locks up a police officer or two for lying under oath is the day they’ll start fixing this mess.
#DPPReforms are what we need. URGENTLY!
@TonyNatif Who holds these perjurers accountable?
These guys in uniform parade lies as evidence before Judge Comfort, who finds no comfort in such hogwash.Taxpayer funds fuel these jokers who can't trace their presence on video.What poison motivates this betrayal?
#UgandaVsMollyKatanga
@TonyNatif @PoliceUg @ODPPUGANDA @JudiciaryUG Uganda's justice system is broken! arrests without evidence, overcrowded prisons, and endless trials. #UgandaVsMollyKatanga shows it suicide called murder, inconclusive evidence, yet years in jail. Join @PublicSquareEA and others to demand reform! #EmptyTheJails #DPPReforms
This cross examination is painful to watch for anyone who cares about criminal justice reforms in Uganda.
This is why we need #DPPReforms ASAP.
Something is broken in our @PoliceUg.
This State Witness, a full Regional Scene of Crime Officer, showed up in court, took oath, said he had visited a murder scene with a certain police officer, Mary Mbabazi.
The defense says he’s lying about having gone to the scene of crime with said police officer and at said time.
A video is played showing Mary Mbabazi arriving alone. Police officer recognizes her and says yes, that’s Mary Mbabazi.
He’s not anywhere in the video. It’s played for minutes before and after arrival. He confirms he’s nowhere in the video.
It’s put to him by @jet_tumwebaze that he lied. He says he didn’t lie. The video clearly shows he lied. He insists he didn’t lie. Perhaps the video recorder just edited him out.
These are the @PoliceUg officers the state wants to rely on to convict someone for murder.
These are the police officers that have filled up our jails to 4 times capacity.
Same police officers are being accused of back-dating police forms 17A and submitting forged documents.
Police officers filed two PF17As that are alike on everything, down to placement of commas and stamps but one has extra exhibits. The witness is having a difficult time explaining why a carbon copy has different information than the original.
Witness says “pens fails sometimes”.
The Chief State Prosecutor tries to step in and Mr Tumwebaze, with whom they seem to have no love lost, tells him not to bother helping his (the defense’s case).
He says: “why are you helping me with my case, Mr Muwaganya? You help yours. You can’t fail to help yours and help mine”. The man is only serving violence.
The Chief State Prosecutor, a very good prosecutor in his own right, looks distraught.
The witness battering goes on…It’s a bit painful to watch.
#UgandaVsMollyKatanga
Wategedde luno olutalo Supreme Court bwe’yaluwunzisse? 🤭
Kati basilisse.
Naye ffe twagala #DPPReforms
Natif is arguing with actual lawyers about the law 😂
That man is a different breed 😂
The dPP needs to step up and address this issue.
We need #DPPReforms
In the decision highlighted below, the Supreme Court ruled that Defilement is not an alternative or lesser charge of rape.
The ruling emphasizes consent as a key ingredient of rape and immaterial for the offence of defilement.
This is in line with an argument we have made over time. And we earnestly hope that @ODPPUGANDA heeds this ruling's guidance going forward.
#DPPReforms
#EmptyTheJails
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