Supreme Court to give her ruling on the constitutional court judgment on notice

By; Rachael Najjuma

06^th Feb. 2020

The supreme Court has declared that it will give its ruling on notice in a matter were the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Attorney General (AG) appealed on a judgment of the constitutional court that evicted 6 Members of Parliament on grounds that they contested for non existing vacancies.

A panel of seven judges has heard the application where the EC and AG filed an appeal for the stay of the execution of the constitutional orders until the Supreme Court gives its ruling thereby allowing the MPs to continue performing their duties till the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Today two of the affected MPs Asuman Basalirwa and Erioda Tumwesigye were present in court.

The affected MPs are from the newly created municipalities of Bugiri, Apac, Nebbi, Kotido, Ibanda and Sheema and the judgment to evict them from parliament was made by Five Justices who included Deputy Chief Justice Alphonse Owiny-Dollo, Kenneth Kakuru, Cheborion Barishaki, Fredrick Engonda- Ntende and Christopher Madrama.

The petition was filed by a concerned citizen Eddie Kwizera and the justices of the Constitutional Court reasoned and agreed with him that the election of the 6 MPs couldn’t stand because they offered themselves to contest for constituencies whose administrative units, villages or cells had not yet been demarcated by the Electoral Commission as the law states that such constituencies created by division of others takes effect in the next general election.