Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament Betty Nambooze has requested the Chief Justice of Uganda Alphonse Owiny Dollo to resign.
Nambooze says the Chief Justice must first make a public apology before resigning for abuse of office, promoting sectarianism and behaving in a manner that is unbecoming of a person of his status in the country.
On Wednesday while at the home of the Late Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah in Muyenga, the Chief Justice alleged that some people belonging to one ethnic group (Buganda) demonstrated when Oulanyah was flown to Seattle, USA using taxpayers’ money yet they didn’t say a word when their ethnic leader (Kabaka Ronald Mutebi) was flown to Germany using a presidential jet.
Oulanyah died last Sunday from Seattle where he had gone to receive specialised treatment.
In a video that made rounds on social media, Owiny Dollo condemned the demonstrations and said that it’s only a wicked person that fights a person fighting for his life.
“Some people demonstrated in Seattle telling a man struggling for his life to go back home (Uganda), Why didn’t they demonstrate when their Ethnic leader was flown to Germany using a presidential jet?”wondered Owiny Dollo.
According to Nambooze, Justice Owiny Dollo made a mistake to make false allegations against the person of the Kabaka and the people of Buganda at large. The legislator disclosed that the Kabaka of Buganda has never supported tribalism and over the years, he has demonstrated that Uganda belongs to all its people regardless of their tribes, political or religious affiliations.
“You speech contained hidden incitive allegations to the Acholi as people against their fellow Ugandans the Baganda….The fact is that you knew and intended to Peddle lies so as you would succeed in promoting divisions and tribalism among Ugandans,” Nambooze told off Dollo in a statement on Saturday.
I wish to inform you that you greatly insulted Ugandans who trusted you with a big Office and honour when you stood to champion hate in a speech fully informed with a calculated agenda to vilify, humiliate and incite hatred against the Baganda as a people. I dont know whether its part of your duty as a CJ to visit the sick in foreign countries for which you would require Ugandan taxpayers to sponsor your trip or you enjoyed the misuse of public funds to go and return to do the politically motivated campaign against the Baganda and members of the National Unity Party?!”the legislator added.
Nambooze further claimed that Justice Dollo’s demeanor greatly exposed his deap seated hate and dislike he has for Buganda.
” I refer you CJ to the provisions of the judicial code of conduct that requires him and all the judicial Officers of whatever rank to at all times act in a manner that is not likely to cause embarrassment, disrepute or lower the integrity of the judiciary in and out of court,”she angrily stated.
To prove that as a CJ you’re now a liability to Ugandan judicially and hence you will do us better to stand down from the Sanctus Office of a Country’s Chief Justice Justice….I quote Proffesor Chuba Okadigbo who said of people like you, that, ‘If you are emotionally attached to your tribe, religion or political leaning to the point that truth and justice become secondary considerations, your education and exposure is useless. If you cannot reason beyond petty sentiments, you are a liability.'”
On Friday, the Buganda Kingdom also watered down allegations that Kabaka Mutebi used a Presidential Jet to fly to Germany for treatment, as the CJ claimed.
The Katikkiro (Prime Minister) of Buganda Owek Charles Peter Mayiga said the Kabaka flew to Germany in August, 2021 using KLM Airlines but not Presidential jet.
“Death causes shock, grief and anguish and it often makes emotions run high. That is why it is required of all of us to be calm during difficult times like this,” Katikkiro Mayiga said in a statement.
“It will be recalled that his maiden speech as Speaker, in May 2021, the Rt Hon. Jacob Oulanyah urged his fellow legislators to” put their faith in facts and sharpening arguments rather than raising our voices”. It is in that regard that we urge members of the public, including leaders at all levels to preserve the dignity of the deceased by avoiding unfounded statements which can only cause unwarranted debates thereby causing more grief to the deceased’s family, friends, colleagues and the entire country.”
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