Highly placed sources close to the National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (Bobi Wine) have told Ono Bwino that he is going to use his remaining days of his official duties in United States of America to seek for individual sanctions for lower judicial officers back home in Uganda.
Jinja South East Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Paul Mwiru revealed that NUP’s decision to target lower judicial officers is guided by their actions of undermining the Rule of Law by choosing to run Courts as their superiors wish to the extent of tormenting civil activists, opposition leaders and supporters.
“Magistrates in lower courts are becoming demi-gods, exhibiting a lot of bias against civil activists and opposition politicians. We know we cannot deal with them here because most of them are wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, children and friends of those in State power and in the ruling government, so they do all that impunity including corruption and bribery dealings because they know very well that no one can touch them,” Mwiru said.
He explained that the only remaining alternative is using international forums to punish them by isolating them and their family members through slapping economical and travel sanctions because human right violation is an international criminal offence.
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He divulged that the decision to target lower judicial officers is premised on the assessment their party made through the help of their lawyers where they established that a number of their supporters including women and youths are rotting in prison on bailable offences.
He added that lower judicial officers are conniving with prosecutors from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and security bosses to frustrate suspects from getting justice as the law states.
Mwiru said that government was planning to use Kanyanya Chief Magistrate Court to torment Bobi Wine just like they have used it to tormentor other NUP leaders and supporters who are facing criminal charges related to unlawful drilling but he was briefed before his arrest and he sneaked out of the country and survived.
Sources whispered the issue of the lower judicial officers is one of the reasons why Bobi Wine is returning back to Washington where he began his international advocacy meetings with influential individuals in March this year and on his return, he is expected to attend high level celebrations at Capitol Hill as Americans celebrate 250 years since getting their independence from Great Britain.
Capitol Hill is a historic neighbourhood and the legislative centre of Washington D.C. housing the U.S. Capitol, Senate and House office buildings, the Supreme Court, and the Library of Congress and Bobi Wine spending some days at that place is a plus in his party’s political struggle against President Museveni government according to sources in NUP.
A few weeks back, Bobi Wine met university students, Ugandans, Africans and influential lobbyists in Boston city, Massachusetts who helped to connect him to meet some senior lobbyists in Washington.
Bobi Wine’s official tour in United States since he sneaked out of the country has also helped him regain the trust of some lobbyists who previously helped him to secure travel and economic sanctions against top government officials, judicial officers and officers in security.
Among the currently sanctioned senior government officials include; Speaker Annet Anita Among, retired High Court judge Moses Mukiibi, Maj Gen Sabiiti Mzeeyi, Maj Gen Christopher Ddamulira, Maj Gen Abel Kandiho, Maj Gen James Birungi, police’s Assistant Inspector General of Police Frank Mwesigwa and a number of others.
Among those lobbyists who were bitter with Bobi Wine over money deals is Robert Amsterdam, his international lawyer who has been instrumental in marketing his struggle to individuals who influence international decisions.
Sources said that Amsterdam connected Bobi Wine to chief operatives working with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which is a U.S. government agency that collects and analyses foreign intelligence.
