The Acting Chief Registrar Pamela Lamunu Ocaya has been asked to take administrative and disciplinary action against defiant Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrates Ritah Kidasa Wanyama over lawyer Male Mabirizi’s continued imprisonment.
In their petition dated 25th March 2026, the lawyers led by Uganda Law Society vice president Anthony Asiimwe and Yasin Ssentumbwe claim that without reasonable explanation, the magistrate declined to respect the landmark decision of the Constitutional Court which declared part of the Computer Misuse Act Articles including those in which their client was charged illegal, meaning that all suspects facing such laws were supposed to be discharged from prison.
“The irresistible inference from all this compounding impunity is that the learned trial magistrate is obliged motivated by the malevolent urgings of the former complaints, to wit Chief Justice Dr Flavian Zeija and Justice Musa Ssekaana, which is a pity,” the lawyer’s letter reads in part.
The lawyers petitioned the Chief Registrar who is the immediate supervisor to Kidasa who they reported that she assured them that she will not give them the date when their client will appear before her and also refused to give them a production warrant forcing prison’s boss to produce him to court until they extract a decree from the said Constitutional Court decision.
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At first, the Magistrate asked the lawyers to give her certified copies of the said judgement which they did but after presenting them, she changed her mind and ask for a decree.
It should be remembered that recently, Mabirizi asked the said magistrate to recuse herself from his matter claiming that she will not give him justice given their stormy passed which involved him dragging her to the Judicial Service Commission seeking her removal from the office of a judicial officer citing incompetence.
Mabirizi’s troubles stem from a complaint filed by Chief Justice Zeija and Justice Ssekaana who accused him of spreading hate speech.
He was charged in February 2026 and remanded to Luzira prison. When he applied for bail, his application was dismissed by Kidasa on grounds that his sureties presented expired national identity cards.
In the same development, this website has learnt that during the Monday cabinet meeting, President Museveni and other ministers after receiving a brief from the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka over the Constitutional Court decision on the Computer Misuse Act, advised him not to Appeal at the Supreme Court.
Kiwanuka confirmed the development saying that he is going to engage other stakeholders to rectify the problem which resulted into their lose in court by taking back the Act to parliament.
