Bobi Wine treason case flops 4 years later

The 2018 treason case slapped on the National Unity Platform party president Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert aka Bobi Wine and 32 others remains a clogged file within the judiciary, 4 years since the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions committed it to the Gulu High Court for hearing.

Kyagulanyi, and 32 others were among other cases charged with denial of right of way to president Yoweri Museveni during the August 2018 Arua by-election final campaigns, and also the alleged damage of the presidential motorcade after one of the vehicles on the fleet of Gen. Museveni was damaged.

Kyagulanyi, Mityana municipality MP Zaake Francic and others were violently arrested on August 13, 2018 and charged with treason among others. Their case however flopped 4 years later after their bail was approved.

Speaking to this media last year, Ms Jacquelyn Okui, the spokesperson of the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, said they played their part when they sent the group to the High Court.
“When we commit accused persons to the High Court for trial, it is an indication that we are ready to prosecute the matter. Committal is usually done when investigations are complete,” Ms Okui said in March last year.

Judiciary spokesperson Jameson Karemani, however, attributed the delay to few judges. “We have always said we have so many cases pending before us and yet we lack enough manpower. But we shall cause-list it and hear it. We have a policy of ‘first-in’, ‘first out,” he said at the time.