Kira Municipality Members of Parliament, Ibrahim Ssemujju Nganda – the spokesperson of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Katonga faction has said the Najjanankumbi leadership should not think that the war is over.
Nganda says the Katonga faction is still strong and not deterred by last week Delegates Conference of the Najjanankumbi team at which Patrick Amuriat Oboi and Nathan Nandala Mafabi were given another term as party president and Secretary General respectively.
Nganda says they are going to continue pursuing legal avenues to ensure that Nandala and Amuriat are removed from the leadership of the FDC because, according to Semujju, the meeting, the first of its kind in the 18 years of FDC, was illegal under the party Constitution.
Headed by the Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago, the Katonga faction also criticized High Court Judge, Musa Ssekaana for mistreating them when they appeared before him seeking an interim order stopping the delegates’ conference of the Najjanankumbi faction.
Nganda who was speaking to the media from Katonga road says Ssekaana declined to grant the orders arguing that the applicants had filed their application late.
He also accuses the judge of treating them as though they were second-class citizens.
“We know judges are given a lot of power under the Constitution, but this power must be exercised judiciously. We are not happy with the way, Judge Musa Ssekaana treated us when we appeared before him. He made us wait for two hours because he had fixed the matter at midday but didn’t hear from us until 2 p.m.
When hearing of the interim application began, he told us he had other commitments and wanted to be out of his office by 3 p.m. He gave us 20 minutes which he said if we didn’t want to utilise, he could push the matter forward,” Ssemujju said.
“He literary walked away from us and announced that his ruling would be delivered by email in the evening. We waited until we went to sleep without his email ruling. We were told the following morning that he had actually delivered his ruling at midnight. His conduct makes it look like a favour by judges to hear cases. We will raise this matter formally to him and to his supervisors. This is not just for us but for everybody seeking justice in our court system,” Ssemujju added.
