{"id":6156,"date":"2013-05-08T13:29:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=6156"},"modified":"2013-05-08T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T13:35:12","slug":"courts-halts-basajjabalaba-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/courts-halts-basajjabalaba-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts halts Basajjabalaba trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Basajjabala-at-court.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6158\" alt=\"Basajjabala-at-court\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Basajjabala-at-court-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Basajjabala-at-court-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Basajjabala-at-court-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Basajjabala-at-court-175x125.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Basajjabala-at-court-93x67.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Basajjabala-at-court.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Constitutional\u00a0Court has stayed all criminal proceedings against city tycoon Hassan Basajja Balaba.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a petition filed at this court challenging his trial before the Anti-Corruption Court.<\/p>\n<p>In the petition, Bassaja contests the cancellation of his bail, and the DPP\u2019s decision to drop charges against him at Buganda road court and carrying on with the same charges at the Anti-Corruption Court.<\/p>\n<p>The charges in question are conspiracy to defeat tax laws and forging a judicial statement.<\/p>\n<p>Together with his brother Muzamiru Basajjabalaba, he is alleged to have forged a consent judgment that led to the payment of Shs 142b, following the cancellation of his market tenders.<\/p>\n<p>The three constitutional judges, Justice Steven Kavuma, Justice\u00a0Augustine Nshiimye and Justice Remmy Kasule ruled that Bassajja\u2019s petition had raised important issues that need interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>The judges also ordered that Basajja\u2019s passport be returned to him so he can travel to Nairobi for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The same judges also ordered that Bassaja reports to the Court Registrar instead of the Criminal Investigations Department.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Constitutional\u00a0Court has stayed all criminal proceedings against city tycoon Hassan Basajja Balaba. This follows a petition filed at this court challenging his trial before the Anti-Corruption Court. In the petition, Bassaja contests the cancellation of his bail, and the DPP\u2019s decision to drop charges against him at Buganda road court and carrying on with the same charges at the Anti-Corruption Court. The charges in question are conspiracy to defeat tax laws and forging a judicial statement. Together with his brother Muzamiru Basajjabalaba, he is alleged to have forged a consent judgment that led to the payment of Shs 142b, following the cancellation of his market tenders. The three constitutional judges, Justice Steven Kavuma, Justice\u00a0Augustine Nshiimye and Justice Remmy Kasule ruled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":6158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-6156","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\/6156"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}