{"id":45213,"date":"2021-02-16T14:02:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T11:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=45213"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T11:02:47","slug":"city-lawyer-mabirizi-wants-chief-justice-to-excuse-himself-from-bobi-wines-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/city-lawyer-mabirizi-wants-chief-justice-to-excuse-himself-from-bobi-wines-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"City lawyer Mabirizi wants Chief Justice to excuse himself from Bobi Wine\u2019s petition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruth Anderah\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Supreme Court Justices have fixed \u00a0February 23rd to hear an application filed by City lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi seeking an order compelling the Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo to excuse \u00a0himself from hearing an application filed \u00a0by NUP’s president Robert Kyagulanyi challenging Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s victory.<\/p>\n

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In his application formally filed yesterday, the lawyer says justice Alfonse \u00a0Owiny- Dollo was previously hired as a personal lawyer representing Museveni in the 2006 presidential election petition filed against him by his rival Retired Colonel Dr Kiiza Besigye.<\/p>\n

According to Mabirizi, \u00a0 Owiny-Dollo should recuse himself from all the court proceedings involving Museveni because he is impartial.<\/p>\n

In his evidence before court, the petitioner states that on February 5th while presiding over the new law year, Owiny-Dollo requested for an appointment to meet Museveni so that he can present the Judiciary Budget which Museveni agreed to.<\/p>\n

He adds that on February 7th, Owiny-Dollo in company of Deputy Chief Justice and other judicial leaders met Museveni \u00a0on 9th and 11th February and he presided over the application by Kyagulanyi together with eight other Justices which they dismissed.<\/p>\n

Therefore, according to Mabirizi, given the said prior arrangements with Museveni, he is sufficiently impartial to preside over Kyagulanyi\u2019s petition.<\/p>\n

He says the actions of Owiny-Dollo to preside over the said petition is contrary to the Constitution and basic principles of fair hearing.<\/p>\n

He now wants the Supreme Court to also set aside the decision of dismissing Kyagulanyi\u2019s application seeking to amend his petition because the Chief justice who signed on the decision was not qualified to preside over the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruth Anderah\u00a0   The Supreme Court Justices have fixed \u00a0February 23rd to hear an application filed by City lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi seeking an order compelling the Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo to excuse \u00a0himself from hearing an application filed \u00a0by NUP’s president Robert Kyagulanyi challenging Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s victory.   In his application formally filed yesterday, the lawyer says justice Alfonse \u00a0Owiny- Dollo was previously hired as a personal lawyer representing Museveni in the 2006 presidential election petition filed against him by his rival Retired Colonel Dr Kiiza Besigye. According to Mabirizi, \u00a0 Owiny-Dollo should recuse himself from all the court proceedings involving Museveni because he is impartial. In his evidence before court, the petitioner states that on February 5th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":45134,"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":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45213","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\/45213"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}