Court orders govt to pay MP zaake Shs75m for torture
Mityana Municipality Member of Parliament, Francis Zaake will any time from now be smiling himself to the bank after the High Court in Kampala ordered government to pay him shs75 million for being tortured during arrest
Zaake was last year severely captured by police for appropriating Covid alleviation food things to his constituents in spite of government rules pointed toward controlling the spread of the infection.
The administrators who was first confined at Mityana Police Station and later the Special Investigations Division in Kireka later sued the Attorney General for government and individual senior security officials including Abel Kandiiho, the CMI boss, Elly Womanya, the then commandant, Police Investigations Division in Kireka, SSP Bob Kagarura, the previous Wamala Regional Police Commander, SP Alex Mwiine, the previous Mukono District Police Commander, Twesigye Hamdan, a cop joined to SID in Kireka, Musa Walugembe, the official responsible for SID, Kireka and one Detective Assistant Commissioner of Police, Isaac Oketcho for tormenting him.
With all due respect, the security officials said Zaake had been cut by binds.
The State Minister for Internal Affairs, Obiga Kania likewise disclosed to Parliament that the Mityana Municipality official was never tormented during his capture .
“Hon Zaake held the metallic entryway of the cells and furthermore positioned one leg inside in the middle of metal bars so it is hard for police to haul him out. FFU staff hauled him out forcibly from the metallic bars,” Kania disclosed to Parliament last year.
“As per the assertion of the vehicle commandant, Hon Zaake continued thumping himself on the metals of the get. It is plausible that these wounds were because of the thumping.”
On Monday, Justice Esta Nambayo decided that Zaake was tormented by security officials during his capture last year.
For this situation, a report from the African Center for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims has the specialist’s proposal showing that the candidate is in an extraordinary need of normal clinical and mental mediations, similar to physiotherapy of his back and the lower appendages along with verbal individual strong treatment with psychoeducation and customary surveys by ophthalmologist,” the adjudicator dominated.
The adjudicator likewise decided that the curse of torment and injury on Zaake during his detainment by the Police encroached on his key common liberties to pride and independence from torment and coldblooded, cruel or corrupting treatment or discipline ensured under articles 20, 24, 44 (a) of the 1995 constitution.
” A presentation is thus given that the period between the nineteenth/04/2020 and the 29th 805/04/2020, 10 days, that the candidate was kept for more than 48hrs before he was charged in the Chief Magistrate’s Court at Mityana, established unlawful and illicit confinement and was disregarding his own freedom under Article 23(4) (b) of the Constitution of Uganda.”
The appointed authority thus guided that administration pays shs75 million to the official as remuneration for the infringement of his privileges by police.
“It is thus requested that the primary respondent(Attorney General) pays an amount of shs75 million to the applicant(Zaake) in remuneration of infringement of his privileges and opportunities.
