The MP failed tobturn up in Court for his bail hearing.

Luzira Prison Authorities Ordered to Produce MP Ssegirinya in Court.

In Summary
  • He is charged with murder and terrorism.
  • He was denied bail.
Image: courtesy photo

Buganda Road Court has issued a production warrant to Prison Authorities in Luzira prison to produce Kawempe North MP Muhammad Ssegirinya in Court on the 15th of November 2021.

The production Warrant was issued by grade one Magistrate Doreen Karungi after the MP failed to show up in Court today for his bail heating on new charges of inciting violence. 

A prison warder informed court that Ssegirinya is still hospitalised at Murchison Bay were he is getting treatment.

Ssegirinya  and fellow MP Allan Sewanyana  of Makindye West  are  currently on remand on other charges including murder, terrorism, attempted murder and aiding terrorists after being denied bail by Masaka High Court.

According to the chargsheet, Ssegirinya is accused of posting on his social media Facebook Funs page a massage allegedly calculated to incite the public against  a section or group of Ugandan population while relating it to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

The Legislators and four others are said to have masterminded the recent Masaka Bijambiya murders that left over 10 elderly people hacked to death by machete welding men.

They were granted bail by the Masaka High Court but were later re-arrested, charged afresh and remanded.Their lawyers led by Kampala Lord mayor Erias Lukwago and Kampala Woman MP Shamim Malende describes the said allegations as politically motivated.