{"id":31223,"date":"2017-09-12T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=31223"},"modified":"2017-09-12T08:27:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T08:27:31","slug":"high-court-declines-order-to-exhume-late-ssemwangas-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/high-court-declines-order-to-exhume-late-ssemwangas-body\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court declines order to exhume\u00a0late Ssemwanga’s body"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ruth Anderah:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kampala High Court has declined to issue an order directing A-Plus Funeral Management Company to exhume\u00a0the body of the late Ivan Ssemwanga.<\/p>\n

The unusual order had been sought by a one Abey\u00a0Mgugu, a concerned citizen.<\/p>\n

The presiding judge Margaret Oumo-Oguli yesterday dismissed Mgugu\u2019s application against A-Plus Funeral Services and Bank of Uganda in which he had\u00a0sought\u00a0permission\u00a0to exhume Ssemwanga’s body and remove all the currency notes that were\u00a0allegedly buried with him.<\/p>\n

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Ivan’s grave filled with Uganda shillings notes<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Justice Oguli ruled that\u00a0A-Plus Funeral Management Company owed no duty to Mgugu since the mode of contract that Ssemwaga’s family entered\u00a0with the funeral company did not include the supervision\u00a0and enforcement with regard to respect of currency notes.<\/p>\n

The judge also ruled that Mgugu did not have any cause of action\u00a0against A-Plus because it is\u00a0not the\u00a0company that\u00a0threw money into the\u00a0 deceased\u2019s\u00a0 grave, something which would have given rise to this case.<\/p>\n

Justice Oguli has also exonerated Bank of Uganda of\u00a0neglecting its statutory duty to protect currency notes saying after careful perusal of the\u00a0Bank of Uganda Act, the court realized that it gives it no duty to enforce respect of the Ugandan currency and those from other jurisdictions such as the US Dollar and the South African Rand that Mgugu claims were also thrown in Ssemwanga’s\u00a0grave.<\/p>\n

In his petition, Mgungu wanted an order that the said money be put back into circulation\u00a0for purposes of respecting the currency of Uganda and other countries like South Africa and the United States of America.<\/p>\n

Mgungu also wanted a declaration that Bank of Uganda willfully and negligently failed to ensure the respect of the said currencies.<\/p>\n

Bank of Uganda still has a pending case before Justice Stephen Musota\u00a0where another concerned citizen, a one Robert Ssenfuka\u00a0wants the late Ssemwanga’s body exhumed and all the money that was buried with him\u00a0put back into circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ruth Anderah: Kampala High Court has declined to issue an order directing A-Plus Funeral Management Company to exhume\u00a0the body of the late Ivan Ssemwanga. The unusual order had been sought by a one Abey\u00a0Mgugu, a concerned citizen. The presiding judge Margaret Oumo-Oguli yesterday dismissed Mgugu\u2019s application against A-Plus Funeral Services and Bank of Uganda in which he had\u00a0sought\u00a0permission\u00a0to exhume Ssemwanga’s body and remove all the currency notes that were\u00a0allegedly buried with him. Justice Oguli ruled that\u00a0A-Plus Funeral Management Company owed no duty to Mgugu since the mode of contract that Ssemwaga’s family entered\u00a0with the funeral company did not include the supervision\u00a0and enforcement with regard to respect of currency notes. The judge also ruled that Mgugu did not have any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":31235,"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":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31223"}],"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=31223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}