A litigant has gone to court seeking orders to have the Uganda Communication commission to stop Kampala Lawyer Eron Kiiza from allegedly posting what he terms as defamatory statements on his social Media accounts against Justice Joseph Murangira.
Mukasa Paul, a legal assistant with Muwada and company advocates has asked Buganda Road court holding at law Development center to also compel UCC to print and certify Facebook posts,YouTube content and website information of Kiiza because they intend to use the said content to act as evidence when seeking relevant orders from court to stop Kiiza from allegedly defaming the person of Justice Murangira through his social Media accounts.
According to Mukasa,some of Kiiza's content is defamatory and if not stopped by court, justice Murangira will suffer substantial loss in regard to his name and ridicule among the right thinking members of the profession and the community.
These want UCC to also avail them with audio,video or any other published record by any radio, television, print media related to the alleged defamatory content against the justice from either Kiiza or any other person.
He says that such posts have invited unmitigated and wide spread condemnation, reducible and threats to the person of justice Murangira by a cross section on social media users in Uganda and a cross the world by endangering his safety,reputation and credibility.
In his application, Mukasa says UCC has powers control and regulate content in relation to communication in Uganda.