{"id":33882,"date":"2018-03-29T05:49:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T05:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=33882"},"modified":"2018-03-29T05:49:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T05:49:35","slug":"petitioner-wants-justice-elizabeth-musoke-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/petitioner-wants-justice-elizabeth-musoke-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Petitioner wants Justice Elizabeth Musoke to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Ruth Anderah.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A petitioner in the yet to be heard Age-limit case has asked one of the judges on the trial panel Elizabeth Musoke to step down over alleged conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter written to justice Musoke and received by her chambers at the Constitutional Court, a one Hassan Mabirizi claims that the judge has a child with the deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukuntana who is the lead counsel defending government in the above petition.<\/p>\n<p>Male Mabirizi adds that Justice Musoke also has 2 other children with the Minister in- charge of General duties in the OPM Hillary Onek who also supported the age-limit bill in parliament by voting YES.<\/p>\n<p>Owing to the above, Mabirizi contends that justice Musoke is likely to be taking instructions from the 2 fathers of her children who are in very influential positions as regards to the age -limit petition and therefore she cannot make an independent ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Deputy Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny -Dollo named a panel of 5 justices including himself, \u00a0justice Elizabeth Musoke, Remmy Kasule , Kenneth Kakuru and Cheborion Barishaki to preside over the age -limit case in Mbale starting on the 9th\/April 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ruth Anderah.\u00a0 A petitioner in the yet to be heard Age-limit case has asked one of the judges on the trial panel Elizabeth Musoke to step down over alleged conflict of interest. In a letter written to justice Musoke and received by her chambers at the Constitutional Court, a one Hassan Mabirizi claims that the judge has a child with the deputy Attorney General Mwesigwa Rukuntana who is the lead counsel defending government in the above petition. Male Mabirizi adds that Justice Musoke also has 2 other children with the Minister in- charge of General duties in the OPM Hillary Onek who also supported the age-limit bill in parliament by voting YES. Owing to the above, Mabirizi contends that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":33887,"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-33882","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\/33882"}],"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=33882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}