Bobi Wine: “Gen Gutti lacks training, legal depth to preside over military court”

The leader of National Unity Platform(NUP) parliamentarian Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine has lashed out at Lt. Gen. Andrew Gutti, the chairman of tribunal Martial for being unfair when sentencing a NUP supporter to eight months in jail

Gutti sentenced Saanya Muhdyn Kakooza, Kyagulanyi supporter to eight months in jail on charges of contempt of the court at Makindye.

The sentence follows an occasion that occurred at the tip of a tribunal session on February fifteen once Kakooza protested against the year-long detention while not trial of many supporters of the NUP.

It is alleged that Kakooza and alternative NUP supporters were kidnapped from completely different components of the country shortly when the 2021 elections, tortured, so on the Q.T. remanded to Kitalya jail wherever they continue to be to this point.

Kyagulanyi same this is often political maltreatment, and Kakooza was well inside his constitutional rights.

“For all intents and functions, Gen. Gutti could be a lay man. He has no credible legal coaching any, nonetheless he presides over a court that claims to own original jurisdiction over any and every one offences in spite of their gravity; and habitually problems a number of the harshest sentences usually reserved for judicial officers with 10+ years of legal follow,” same Kyagulanyi during a transient statement.

While death penalty his duties, Kyagulanyi claimed that Gutti exudes associate degree acute lack of conception of the foremost basic tenets of the correct to a good hearing, adding that once lawyers cite for him the law, he jails or threatens to jail them!

“Men like Gutti WHO don’t possess the qualifications of even the lowest-ranking judicial officer mustn’t purport to determine the fate of the many voters that seem in courts seeking justice,” he said.

Yesterday Kyagulanyi and a few of his supporters visited Kakooza at Luzira jail wherever he was transferred.

Kakooza told Kyagulanyi that many tries were created throughout the medical checkup to hale him to confess that he’s a junkie WHO was underneath the influence of marijuana once he protested before the Court Martial, which guarantees were created to free him if he created the confession.

“Saanya remains robust despite the jail sentence. He sends revolutionary greetings to any or all of you comrades and implores you to not hand over on our common struggle to come African nation back to democratic governance. Saanya could be a hero to our struggle and that i have told him the maximum amount. I even have assured him that he has our respect and admiration for the bravery and determination he has exhibited throughout,” he said.