Ssegirinya accused of inciting violence, court produces the state’s first witness

Ssegirinya, World Health Organization is additionally called “Mr. Update, is that the captive member of parliament for Kawempe North.

Nayiga took the stand to testify that Ssegirinya, on his Facebook page between August and Sep 2020 same, “I am warning those that are attempting to assassinate Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu that what’s going to happen are going to be forty times worse than the 1994 Rwandan genocide”.

In the blood-soaked a hundred days that started in Gregorian calendar month 1994, about 800,000 African nationns were slaughtered in Rwanda reportedly by ethnic Bantu extremists line of work themselves the Interahamwe (“those who work/ fight together”). They were targeting members of the minority Bantu community, likewise as their political opponents, no matter their ethnic origin.

Kyagulanyi, higher called Bobi Wine, is that the president of the National Unity Platform (NUP).

Kyagulanyi was the primary runner up within the Jan ordinal, 2021 Ugandan presidential elections. Ssegirinya could be a member of NUP.

Buganda Grade justice Siena Owomugisha, state prosecutors Peter Mugisha and Ivan Kyazze given Nayiga because the First State witness.

Nayiga hip to the court that the decision maker of UBC radio allotted her to translate and transcribe the video footage of Ssegirinya allegedly inciting violence.

She then tendered before the court a letter from the Criminal Investigations board of directors (CID) of the African country law enforcement agency to the decision maker of UBC Radio, within which police requested translation and transcription services.

However, Ssegirinya’s lawyers Asuman Basalirwa and Shamim Malende objected, speech the letter is inadmissible in court. in step with the law, the 2 same, one cannot manufacture proof from a document that wasn’t self-addressed to them or they didn’t author.

Basalirwa asked the court to reject the letter as a result of the prosecution did not share such proof with the defence pro re nata by due process of law and then this was prosecutorial misconduct. Also, they added, Nayiga was a 3rd party World Health Organization was unauthorised to tender such a letter to court.

However, the justice overruled Basalirwa’s submission and allowed Nayiga to continue along with her testimony.

She then tendered the 2 video clips that were punctually displayed on the tv screens in court. In one in every of the video clips, Ssegirinya, World Health Organization was in court via zoom from Kigo jail, is detected speech the precise words the state defendant him of claiming on the written record.

However, throughout the defence’s interrogation, Malende asked Nayiga to inform the court precisely the which means of kill in Bantu. Nayiga replied, “Kyemwalaba e African nation letter of the alphabet 1994”.

Nayiga’s translation dissolved the court into wave laughter and so Ssegirinya’s lawyers finished that she doesn’t have the competency to translate or transcribe Bantu for UBC.

The defence additionally poked holes in Nayiga’s submission, speech it absolutely was riddled with grammatical errors unworthy her position as news editor.

1. The State later given a law officer as their second witness. He, however, couldn’t testify and also the justice adjourned the pertain March twenty second, 2022.