Osuta Yusuf

📸: Istock Jonna was caught fighting in a bar and the police told him that he was going to be in prison while his case was ongoing. He pleaded with Abby his brother to help him get out of prison. So, the following day when Jonna was brought before a magistrate, he asked to be released and even promised court that his brother Abby would keep him out of trouble. Its been two weeks and Jonna now bullies Abby and tells him not to remind him about court things.     Abby has realized that he cannot advise or look after Jonna and wants to stop being his surety. How can he do it?    WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?   When an accused person is released from prison on condition that he/she returns to court for their hearing, it is called bail. One of the conditions is that this person brings people who can guarantee that he returns to court for their trial and that they ‘stay out of trouble’. These people are called sureties. In this case, Abby is a surety for...

Copied from this link here. Over the past year details have emerged about the spectacular and deadly implosion from 2009-2013 of the CIA’s covert communications system used to communicate with intelligence assets across the world. According to public reporting, the agency had used contractors to create a series of innocuous-seeming websites through which its in-country assets could communicate with their handlers but utilized similar coding and technical elements that enabled Iranian intelligence to simply Google for the complete list of sites and rapidly uncover their interconnections and links back to the CIA itself. What can we learn from this incident about our online security and privacy and what lessons might it teach us about the need to return to the previous era’s view that there is no such thing as truly secure communication? Moreover, what might those lessons offer us in terms of advice for the rest of society? The collapse of the CIA’s web-...

By #BarefootLawyers  Nakalembe has endured a lot from Johnny, her neighbour. Whenever one of her matooke gets ready for harvesting he comes for it the night before she can harvest it. This time round, she caught him red-handed in her bedroom holding her handbag. He pushed her out of the way and ran away with her bag.   On Friday last week, he was arrested by the Police and Nakalembe was told that he would be in court on Monday morning. So, she was very shocked when she found him playing ‘ludo’ on Monday night. She ran back to the Police, but she was informed that Johnny had received bail. Nakalembe is worried that she has already lost the case and wonders if she will be able to get back her money since Johhny is out on bail.  WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?  When someone is arrested for committing a crime, they are known as a suspect. This is because anyone who is accused of committing a criminal offence is presumed (taken) to be innocent.  The law says ...

Story compiled by Osuta Yusuf. Watch here the impounded car and the fish loaded  on it. The traffic police of Arua District on Monday 11-December-2023 impounded a Taxi car with registration number plate UAF 703Y over alleged "Dangerous Loading". The car whose driver and the details we weren't able to obtain, was transporting Fishmongers together with their fish loaded on top of it, from Panyamur enroute to Koboko was intercepted by the police and traffic police officers who usually station at Odianyadri in Vurra Sub-county along Arua-Nebbi-Pakwach-Kampala road. Speaking to our reporter on early Tuesday morning 12-December-2023 at the Central Police Station, Mrs Ayike Sauda one of the Fishmongers who were in the car said, after unsuccessful plea for leniency to allow them remove their fish from the car and leave it to be impounded, the condition made them to follow their fish on the car and they ended up sleeping outside, on a veranda at Arua District Central P...

Story compiled by Osuta Yusuf. Watch the tractor commissioning function by clicking on this link  here. The technical and political leaders of Maracha District have on Tuesday 12-December-2023 handed over one big tractor and 19 handheld walking tractors which will soon be distributed out to the 19 Sub-counties and town councils in the district. The ceremony whose guest of Honour was the district Woman MP Hon Driwaru Jennifer, was graced by political and technical department heads of the District. The production officer for Maracha District Dr Candia Alex thanked the government for having a vision to alleviate poverty amongst the people. He added that, all efforts are put in place to see that farmers are trained on the necessary skills and knowledge on Agriculture. LC V Chairperson for Maracha District Hon Obitre Stephen who attributed the distribution of the tractors to fulfillment of government manifesto, described these as commercialization of Agriculture by the gover...

Story compiled by Osuta Yusuf. Click here  on the link to watch the prayers at the funeral  and burial session. The political leaders, wananchi and technocrats from both Obongi District and Maracha District on Tuesday 12-December-2023 buried Mr Gasper Aluga, a Secondary School teacher who had taught in various schools in these two districts. Born on 1-April-1979 and died on 9-December-2023, the secondary teacher was said to have collapsed on the chair while seated at his home, rushed to St Joseph's hospital Ovujo and later on he was pronounced dead by the doctors at the hospital. The deputy headteacher for Obongi Senior secondary school, Mr Alfred Dratele described the deceased as a dedicated hardworking person who has been trusted at the school in the shortest period he has worked there. Maracha District woman MP Hon Driwaru Jennifer who pledged Shs 100,000 per term for each of the orphans left by the late, urged the clan people not to attempt grabbing some o...

  By law, there are certain people who must undergo regular HIV testing to prevent the transmission of HIV. This includes:   (a) Victims of sexual offences (b) Pregnant women (c) Partners of pregnant women   In addition to these, any person arrested for a sexual offence, must also undergo HIV testing so that the results can form part of the criminal proceedings and investigations. This is because any sexual offence becomes more serious if the accused person is HIV positive. 📷: Unsplash

📸: Gen Abel Kandiho. On 9-December-2021, USA slapped sanctions against the then CMI Commander Gen Abel Kandiho. 📸: Gen Kale Kayihura. On 9-December-2022, UK slapped sanctions against former Police Boss Gen Kale Kayihura. 📸: Commissioner General of Prisons, Johnson Byabashaija. Again on this 4-December-2023, the same USA has slapped sanctions against Uganda Prisons Commander Johnson Byabashaija over alleged torture and human rights abuses in Prisons across Uganda. We ask, has USA and UK made December as an LCM to slap sanctions against high ranking government officials in Uganda even when the sanctions just remain on paper without deeper investigations to ascertain logical conclusions or remedy to that effect ?. #iip_updates  #Information_is_Power  #we_inform_the_uninformed