Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Avenue Chief Magistrates Court has granted a money bail of sh5 million to frail CID Spokesperson, Detective Assistant Superintendent of Police (D/ASP) Charles Twiine Mansio, who is dealing with prices of abominate speech.
The bail changed into as soon as granted on Monday by Chief Magistrate Ronald Kayizzi. On the other hand, the court docket declined to birth Twiine’s co-accused, Noah Mitala alias Noah Mutwe, citing the absence of colossal sureties and the severe nature of the prices he faces, at the side of incitement to assassinate President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his son, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
Magistrate Kayizzi informed Mitala to reapply for bail as soon as he secures colossal sureties or to search bail from the Excessive Court. Twiine changed into as soon as granted bail after presenting sureties that had been deemed colossal, per guidelines issued by the Chief Justice. The court docket ordered his sureties to develop a non-money bond of 50 million shillings.
Of us that stood surety for Twiine included his longtime excellent friend Alex Atuhaire, a lecturer at Victoria College; his wife Ketty Kabagenyi, a secondary college teacher at Namagunga; James Mugisha, a commissioner in impress of compliance on the Equal Alternatives Rate; and Basimwa, his brother and director of Baguma Restaurant in Mbarara. The court docket learned all of them colossal.
In incompatibility, Mitala had presented his father, Henry Kabuye, and other family participants, at the side of Esther Harriet Namala and Juliet Namusoke, all of whom had been learned no longer to be colossal sureties. Kayizzi directed that Mitala be returned to Luzira Penal complex, where he remains on remand, whereas Twiine, who had spent one month and 7 days in custody, changed into as soon as released. Both are scheduled to come encourage to court docket on July 14, 2025, for point out of their case. The prosecution alleges that between January 2024 and Can also simply 2025, D/ASP Charles Twiine Mansio, at a range of areas inner Kampala Capital City Authority, ragged electronic social media to incite Noah Mitala to attack and trigger the loss of life of President Museveni and General Muhoozi Kainerugaba using pavers, motivated by political conception or the offices they attend.
It is furthermore alleged that Twiine ragged a pc to transmit or piece malicious recordsdata, claiming that Anita Annet Among, the Speaker of Parliament, is a “imperfect human being” and the executive sponsor of killings and violence in Bukedea District—remarks deemed doubtless to promote hostility against her. Further, he’s alleged to possess shared recordsdata alleging that Thomas Tayebwa, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, is a “money launderer, masquerader, and fraudster”—statements doubtless to ridicule or degrade him.
Prosecution furthermore alleges that Twiine referred to General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Chief of Defence Forces, as a “full pig and a crook”; General James Birungi as “a crook and a killer”; and shared claims that the Bahima are “killers”—statements alleged to promote tribal hostility. Both Twiine and Mitala remark the prices and assign their innocence.
They are appearing sooner than the identical court docket where several folks, at the side of Ibrahim Musana—in most cases identified as Force 24 Seven (24/7)—and a frail Rubaga Deputy Resident City Commissioner, are furthermore dealing with prices of abominate speech and spreading malicious recordsdata, notably against Speaker Anita Among.
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