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By Mulengera Reporter
Acting Judiciary Chief Registrar Tom Chemutai has deployed Dr Douglas Karekona Singiza, who was the Secretary and Accounting Officer of the Lady Justice Catherine Bamugemereire-led Commission of Inquiry into land matters, to the Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court in new changes announced on Friday.
Instituted by President Yoweri Museveni in December 2016, the Bamugemereire Commission concluded its work in November 2019 after receiving 7,799 land-related complaints, but still wants Shs5bn to produce a report on their probe. (See: BAMUGEMEREIRE TEAM DEMANDS SH5BN TO WRITE INQUIRY REPORT).
But even as the Commission’s war of words with junior lands Minister Persis Namuganza over the Shs5bn request rages on, Chemutai has deployed Singiza to the Nakawa Court.
In the same reshuffle, Chemutai picked Mityana Court Magistrate Elias Kakooza, who weeks ago refused to try Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake because of his health condition, to replace Hellen Ajio, who was promoted to the position of Assistant Registrar at the end of 2019, at Jinja Chief Magistrates Court. (See: MAGISTRATE REFUSES TO CHARGE SICK MP ZAAKE, ORDERS POLICE TO FIRST TREAT HIM).
The new transfers, which Chemutai insists are “aimed at improving service delivery,” will take effect on July 01 and the acting Chief Registrar has advised “all the affected judicial officers to make preparations to hand over their offices in accordance with Chapter 1, section f-d of the standing orders of Government of Uganda.”
LIST: TRANSFERS
- Douglas Karekona Singiza: From Land inquiry commission to Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s court
- Ruth Nabasa: From Nakawa to Mpigi Chief Magistrates Court
- Deo Ssejjemba: From Masaka to Masindi Chief Magistrates Court
- Moses Kule Lubangula: From Masindi to Mityana Chief Magistrates Court
- Georger Obong: From Kiboga to Kiboga/Hoima Chief Magistrates Court
- Samuel Kagoda Ntende: From Hoima to Ibanda Chief Magistrates Court
- Charles Yeteise: From Ibanda to Masaka Chief Magistrates Court
- Elias Kakooza: From Mityana to Jinja Chief Magistrates Court
- Benedict Lwanga (Grade One Magistrate): From Lugazi to Kagadi Magistrates Court
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