Judicial commission decides on Justice Kisaakye’s fate
Justice Kisaakye is the first judge to be recommended to the President to have her removed from office for purposes of investigation.
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has recommended to President Museveni to cause the removal of Justice Esther Kisaakye from the office of the Supreme Court, Daily Monitor reports.
The commission also recommended that Justice Kisaakye be investigated over her alleged misconduct and verbal attack against the Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo during the ruling of her dissenting decision in the presidential election petition involving National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, and President Museveni in March 2021.
This was after the JSC, in its over year-long investigations against Justice Kisaakye’s alleged misconduct, established that there exists “some degree of evidence (prima facie case)”, that warrants her being investigated by a tribunal formed by the President.
“The commission is of the considered opinion that a prima facie case has been established through this inquiry of probable grounds of misbehaviour or misconduct, on the part of Hon Lady Justice Dr Kisaakye,” the February 8 report containing the recommendations, which this publication has seen, reads in part.
It added: “The Hon Lady Justice Kisaakye, being a Justice of the Supreme Court of Uganda, the commission, recommends that the President appoints a tribunal, pursuant to Article 144 (2) (b), 3 and 4 of the Constitution, for the question of the removal of Hon Dr Justice Kisaakye, from office, to be investigated.”
When contacted last evening, Justice Kisaakye said she had not yet received a copy of the report.
“How did you get that information? That is news to me,” Justice Kisaakye said in a telephone interview last evening.
“If they recommended for my removal from office, then they will communicate to me at the right time but if they choose to communicate to others and leave me out, I don’t control them. Thank you for informing me,” she added.
The JSC is chaired by Justice Benjamin Kabiito.
The other commissioners who signed the recommendation are Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka, Ms Ruth Sebatindira, Ms Norah Matovu, Mr Johnson Bitarabeho, Mr Badru Wagwa, and Mr Jimmy Okello, who are all members of the commission and Ms Jane Margaret Akurut, the acting secretary of the commission.
Justice Kisaakye is the first judge to be recommended to the President to have her removed from office for purposes of investigation.
SOURCE: Daily Monitor
