The Constitutional court has made itself optimistic that the Inspectorate of Authorities would possibly perchance presumably well perhaps also aloof stop it be persevered prosecution of the jailed faded eternal Secretary in the Place of job of the Top Minsiter Geoffrey Kazinda on prices of illicit enrichment till the Supreme court makes a final resolution on his corruption associated prices.
The unanimous resolution of justices consisting of Eva Luswata , Christopher Gashirabake , Oscar Kihika, Moses Kazibwe and Dr. Asa Mugengyi is to attach in arena till such a time that the Supreme court pronounces itself in the matter .
The Constitutional court’s clarification arises out of an utility filed by Kazinda while accusing the converse of disobeying staunch court orders that halted his prosecution on August, 7, 2020.
In his utility, Kazinda acknowledged that having been disenchanted , the converse appealed this repeat sooner than the Supreme Court and by the time an repeat of attach change into issued, the lower courts had gone forward to discharge him of some offences.
The 5 justices have however acknowledged of their judgment that the Supreme Court doesn’t explicitly mention in its repeat of attach that there ought to be any persevered prosecution of Kazinda in the lower courts.
“It is not stated in the order of the Supreme Court that the respondent (Attorney General) continues the prosecution. If the Supreme Court had intended that the respondent should continue prosecuting the applicant (Kazinda), it would have explicitly stated so,” the 5 justices acknowledged.
“If we were to say that prosecution should proceed until the criminal matters are determined, this would mean that the order for a stay of execution would have resolved the intended appeal to the Supreme Court. Our understanding of the order of stay by the Supreme Court would be that the applicant should not be discharged from the said criminal cases until the determination of the appeal by the Supreme Court.” The justices however famed that the repeat of attach doesn’t resolve the appeal at the Supreme court however slightly means that Kazinda would possibly perchance presumably well perhaps also aloof no longer he discharged till the appeal is disposed off.
Beforehand Kazinda has been convicted of a series of offences including abuse of arena of job , forgery, embezzlement, causing a financial loss and he’s serving quite lots of sentences handed down by the Anti-corruption court .
