Besigye, Mukaaku granted Bail
The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court Chief Magistrate, Dr. Douglas Singiza has granted Dr. Kizza Besigye and Samuel Lubega Walter Mukaaku bail.
Dr. Besigye and Mukaaku have been asked to pay cash ammounting to Shs 2.5 Million Shillings each and their sureties have been asked to execute a non-cash bond of 500,000 shillings.
Dr. Besigye presented Kitgum Municipality Member of Parliament Denis Onekalit and Kampala Capital City Deputy Lord Mayor Doreen Nyanjura as his sureties while Mukaaku presented the Forum for Democratic Change Party Deputy Secretary-General Harlod Kaija and former Rukungiri Municipality Member of Parliament Roland Mugume.
Their lawyer Samuel Muyizzi Mulindwa asked the Court to grant his clients bail on grounds that they are still presumed innocent until proven to be guilty. State Attorney Ivan Kyazze didn't object to bail but asked for stringent terms to be imposed on the two and to direct them to pay cash bail such that they don't abscond from the trial.
On June 15, Besigye and Lubega Mukaaku were arraigned before the Buganda Road Magistrates Court and charged with inciting violence and remanded to Luzira Prison.
The charges stemmed from a protest held along Nakivubo Lane in Shauriyako Parish in Kampala City against the skyrocketing prices of commodities in the country.
Source: URN
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