Rights body orders Attorney General to compensate victims
Her directive came during the first tribunal court hearing for central region by the Uganda Human Rights Commission in Kampala.
The chairperson of Uganda Human Rights Commission, Mariam Wangadya, has directed the Attorney General to compensate four persons for damages inflicted on them during their times of conviction and detention.
Her directive came during the first tribunal court hearing for the central region by the Uganda Human Rights Commission in Kampala.
Kyaterekera Grace, one of the four complainants, does not agree with the tribunal’s decision of giving him six million saying it does not rhyme with what she went through and how much she was tortured.
The Uganda Human Rights Commission resumed its tribunal court sittings after many years and this time Wangadya noted that fifty cases are to be decided on in the next three weeks.
“During the opening of the session, the court was able to decide on six cases today, where four of them are to be compensated by the attorney general while the other two had issues pending,” she said.
The commission says it is battling with a huge backlog of 1700 cases, some as old as 2004.
The tribunal is expected to have it’s next sitting next week at the Gulu regional offices where seventeen cases will be decided on and later proceed to Soroti regional office.
