By Racheal Najjuma
22nd May 2023
The Buganda Road Court has charged and remanded one Stanley Kisambira, a driver attached to the judiciary of Uganda.
Kisambira has been charged with one count of hate speech contrary to section 26A of the computer misuse act 2011 which he denied.
Accordingly, he has been remanded to Luzira prisons until June 2nd, 2023 by the Grade One Magistrate Fidelis Otwao.
Magistrate Otwao adjourned the matter to June 2, 2023 and Kisambira was remanded to Luzira until when he will appear before the trial magistrate who was not present on Monday.
Efforts by the judiciary driver’s lawyers led by Derrick Bazekuketta and Stanley Okecho to have him released pending the appearance of the trial magistrate was futile since the state prosecutor was not in court.
Prosecution alleges that Kisambira on the 12th day of May 2023 within Uganda through a computer shared on the judiciary transport whatsapp group information to wit a recorded audio which was likely to promote hostility against judges in the judiciary, in that judges’ salaries are unfairly over and above those of their drivers and that a driver can decide to cause road accidents by ramming into a moving truck thereby killing the judges and their bodyguards.
The development follows an audio clip last week in which Kisambira complained of the exploitation of judiciary drivers earning a mere Shs200,000.
The audio which has made rounds on social media has seen the judiciary driver hailed by a section of members of the public for coming out to address a critical issue of the welfare of the judiciary drivers.
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