By Rachael Najjuma
11th May 2022
The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has found Bobs Mbaya Kabongo, a Congolese national guilty of unlawful possession of protected species.
Mbaya has been convicted by the Chief Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu after Uganda Wildlife Authority prosecutors led by Kefa Ndeke read to him the facts of the case as to how he committed the crime, which he accepted to be true.
The Court has heard that on April 14th, 2022 in Kibaya village, Bunagana Town Council, Kisoro District, Mbaya imported 122 African Grey Parrots from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo through Bunagana Border into Uganda without a valid permit.
According to the Prosecutors, the parrots were packed in two wooden boxes and that Mbaya did not have a valid life user right to be in possession of the parrots in question.
Mbaya accepted these facts as correct and was subsequently found guilty as charged.
In the aftermath, the Prosecutors informed Court that the maximum sentence for unlawful possession of protected species is life imprisonment but since Mbaya has not wasted court’s time, he should only be handed a 16 year jail term.
The case has been adjourned to May 12th, 2022 for sentencing.
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