Dear @mkituuma , you said that @PoliceUg didn’t have any idea as to the whereabouts of @EriasLukwago .
Now you can confirm he is Police custody at Kira. Is Police interested in knowing where he was before miraculously landing in its custody?
This gentleman is called Robert Kirunda (PhD, MCIArb). He has the kind of intellect that makes law look like the simplest thing in the world.
If you want to understand who he is, look at how he and his team represented Vantage Mezzanine Fund in its long-running legal and arbitration battles against businessman Patrick Bitature and his Simba Group companies. Those cases showcased a legal mind operating at the highest level, navigating complex cross-border finance disputes, arbitration proceedings, enforcement actions, and high-stakes commercial litigation with remarkable precision. He stood at the center of a legal team that secured major victories for Vantage across multiple proceedings and appeals, consistently defeating attempts to block enforcement and derail arbitration processes. His legal stature goes beyond the Bitature disputes. His expertise in arbitration and commercial law earned him appointment to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, a rare distinction reserved for lawyers whose work commands international respect. Dr. Kirunda is one of the strongest commercial litigation and arbitration lawyers Uganda has been blessed with. He belongs to that rare class of lawyers who can walk into the most complex commercial dispute and make the law appear effortless. The frightening thing about people like him is that they make extraordinarily difficult legal work look normal. I am certain he inspires many lawyers because excellence at that level cannot be hidden.
Count 1: Unlawful possession of firearm - 5 years imprisonment
Count 2: Unlawful possession of ammunition - 2 years imprisonment
Count 3: Discharging firearm in public – R20, 000 fine
Count 4: Failure to take reasonable precautions to person or property - R20, 000 fine
JULIUS MALEMA SENTENCING
Judge Twanet Olivier:count 1 is 15 years,count 2 is 15 years,count 3 is 5 years,count 4 is 5 years,count 5 is 5 years all imprisonment
Malema is drinking Muthi at Eastern Cape court
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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of the UN has a legal fellowship open in Geneva, Switzerland (visa & travel costs covered)
Must have a university degree in Law & at least 6 months work experience
Stipend: CHF 5,000 monthly
https://t.co/U4VNCcQf19
Amending the Army, Abandoning the Republic.
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The UPDF Amendment Bill currently before Parliament is not just a bill. It is a symptom. A symptom of a state steadily retreating from constitutional order and engineering itself into personal convenience. A national army that should be the permanent custodian of the Republic’s sovereignty is being remanufactured, not for strategic defense, but to serve short-term political prosecutions. Today, it is Dr. Kizza Besigye facing the theatre of military prosecution, a man whose civilian resistance to militarised politics has somehow made him a permanent guest of the same uniformed forces meant to defend, not pursue, citizens. Tomorrow, it could be you. Or your son. Or a journalist. Or a local contractors association leader with a loud voice.
History doesn’t stutter. It warns. Obote once used Idi Amin as a crude instrument of political control. But the weapon turned on its master, and the Republic paid in blood. Every time Uganda has reduced its army into a personal tool, it has ended up dissolving both the weapon and the wielder. The Uganda Army of Obote. The State Research Bureau of Idi Amin. Now, the UPDF? When you turn a national institution into a retractable baton of individual ambition, you make it disposable. You strip it of permanence and trust. You unwittingly place it on the conveyor belt of historical irrelevance.
What does this have to do with engineers and economic development? Everything.
Legitimate investors, not the hit-and-run types we currently glorify, invest where laws outlast speeches. Where national stability is measured in decades, not moods. You can’t ask someone to put $200 million in steel production when you’re changing laws to suit who you want arrested next week. That is not governance. That is gambling. And only gamblers bet on such states. The rest take their capital to places where the Constitution means something.
Industrialisation thrives on predictability. Human development demands security with dignity. Democracy is not a ceremony. It is the slow, principled management of power with restraint. But when the army itself becomes an experiment in political improvisation, who then secures the Republic?
This amendment doesn’t strengthen the UPDF. It stains it. It makes it less of a national force and more of a name tag, subject to political laundry. It doesn’t anchor the UPDF in the future of the Republic, but drags it back into the darkest corners of our history, where armies served men, not nations. We owe the men and women in uniform better. We owe the investors, students, farmers, engineers, and taxpayers better. We owe the future a country that can’t be hijacked at will. Uganda doesn’t need a new army. It needs to restore the integrity of the one existing.
This is the kind of truth I write about in my new book, The Wisdom Degree: Why I Really Did a PhD. It is not just a personal story, but a blueprint for reclaiming reason in a country drowning in improvisation. Get your copy from Kisana Consults Ltd on +256 787 421141 and start building the kind of thinking this country desperately needs. And as you read, speak. Take a stand. Let your voice be counted in this critical moment. Uganda will begin to work for all of us, the day all of us refuse to stay silent.
In today's @bkabumba's column in @observerug, the good doctor says "The LDC monopoly of training for the Bar Course is unsustainable and unrealistic, and must end."
Find the full article here https://t.co/ueonUDoYi0