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Petition against Nansana MP still unheard as term winds up
Kasule Robert Sebunya, Nansana Municipality MP
What you need to know:
In 2018, seven people petitioned the Constitutional Court, challenging the gazettement of Mr Sebunya as MP.
Court of Appeal has not heard a petition challenging the declaration of Mr Kasule Robert Sebunya as MP for Nansana Municipality with the tenure of the current Parliament winding up.
Members of the next Parliament will be elected on January 14.
In July 2016, the High Court nullified the election of Mr Wakayima Musoke Nsereko and declared Mr Sebunya, the runner up, the winner.
In 2018, seven people petitioned the Constitutional Court, challenging the gazettement of Mr Sebunya as MP. They allege that the court decision violated the laws and usurped people’s powers to elect their representatives.
However, the petition has never been heard despite the fact that Mr Sebunya’s five-year term is ending with the new elections coming up in less than three months.
What petitioners say
The complainants say failure by the Constitutional Court to fix and hear their petition despite several reminders would heavily impact on the jurisprudence of the country.
“We have endlessly and tirelessly moved the registrar of the court requesting for matter to be given a date for trial in vain.
It is our prayer to the court that this matter be given an imminent date to avoid it being overtaken by events which would occasion an injustice, a bad and poor precedent and will create a jurisprudence that will tarnish the image of court,” Mr Frank Gashumba, one of the petitioners, told journalists last week.
On July 2, the complainants petitioned the deputy Chief Justice to have the matter fixed in vain.
