A Human rights lawyer Ladislous Rwakafuuzi has dragged the Attorney\u00a0General to High court seeking compensation for\u00a0 loss of business through\u00a0actions of the Uganda Police\u00a0 who blocked his client Dr. Kiiza Besigye from accessing his chambers at Uganda House along Kampala road.<\/p>\n
Rwakafuuzi wants this\u00a0payment of\u00a0\u00a0 damages to\u00a0 atone for several violations of his rights to practice his legal profession,\u00a0 engage in free trade and business as per the Constitution and\u00a0 also for the inconvenience and embarrassment he suffered.<\/p>\n
The lawyer contends that on the 16th day of November 2016, he had an appointment to meet his client Besigye for consultations and further instructions\u00a0 but no sooner had he (Besigye)reached at Uganda House, than police commanded by Geoffrey Kaheebwa blocked him from entering the parking area\u00a0 and accessing his lawyer’s office .<\/p>\n
Rwakafuuzi has attached photographs as evidence to his suit showing police patrol vehicles and several\u00a0 officers\u00a0 preventing Besigye from proceeding to Uganda House and later towing his car to Kira road police station.<\/p>\n
It’s against this background that the lawyer seeks a declaration that the said\u00a0 actions of the Uganda Police are unconstitutional and that Geoffrey Kaheebwa is unfit to hold office as a Regional Police Commander .<\/p>\n
Court has summoned the Attorney General to file his defense in court within\u00a0 15 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Human rights lawyer Ladislous Rwakafuuzi has dragged the Attorney\u00a0General to High court seeking compensation for\u00a0 loss of business through\u00a0actions of the Uganda Police\u00a0 who blocked his client Dr. Kiiza Besigye from accessing his chambers at Uganda House along Kampala road. Rwakafuuzi wants this\u00a0payment of\u00a0\u00a0 damages to\u00a0 atone for several violations of his rights to practice his legal profession,\u00a0 engage in free trade and business as per the Constitution and\u00a0 also for the inconvenience and embarrassment he suffered. The lawyer contends that on the 16th day of November 2016, he had an appointment to meet his client Besigye for consultations and further instructions\u00a0 but no sooner had he (Besigye)reached at Uganda House, than police commanded by Geoffrey Kaheebwa blocked him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}