Wakiso,
14th /Aug/2012; Court in Entebbe has ordered the
police to amend the charge sheet so as to commence with the prosecution of one Ddungu Elias who is
accused of assaulting a Vision Group journalist Rebecca Nakame.
This followed a prayer to court by the Resident State Attorney,
Eunice Mbaine that the charge sheet be amended so that court proceeds with the
trial of Ddungu Elias since the police have not arrested Katongole Issa and
Mutagubya Jamil who are jointly charged with Ddungu.
Court ordered for the
arrest of Katongole and Mutagubya last month but efforts to trace them have
proved futile since they have reportedly abandoned their workplace in Lweza
village in Wakiso district.
Prosecution alleges
that on 20th/April/2012, the trio, at Bweya village, Ssissa
sub-county in Wakiso district assaulted Nakame occasioning actual bodily harm
contrary to section 236 of The Penal Code Act and destroyed her property –a
video camera which they also confiscated.
Nakame was attacked by
a mob on the orders of one Hakaya Luswa a special police constable attached to
Kajjansi police station. She had been invited to cover a news story about a
family land wrangle, but was attacked by some family members before she started
filming the story. Luswa was however excluded from the case file for unknown
reasons. He is a police officer attached to Kajjansi Police Station.
The case was adjourned
to 13th September 2012 for the trial of Ddungu.
Though court has ordered for the amendment of
the charge sheet, the warrant of arrest should remain open so that the police
can arrest katongole and Mutagubya any time to produce them in court to plead
to the charges.
For
More Information Contact;
Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda
(HRNJ-Uganda),
Kivebulaya
Road Mengo Kampala Opp. St. Marcelino Pre. School,
P.O.BOX.
71314 Clock Tower Kampala
Tel:
+256-414-272934 / +256-414-667627
E-mail: news@hrnjuganda.org,
humanrajournalists@yahoo.co.uk
Website: Www.hrnjuganda.org, BLOG:
http://hrnjuganda.blogpost.com
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