By Mulengera Reporters
Ex-Kampala Lord Mayor Suleiman Kidandala has for months been locked up in South Korean prison after he was convicted for human trafficking-related charges and offences.
This was in relation to hundreds of Ugandans who he got money from and helped to travel to the South Korean Capital.
Minister Minsa Kabanda, who was a close friend and political ally of Kidandala, also tried her best to come to his rescue but she failed.
Now Norbert Mao, under whom Kidandala closely served while still in DP before defecting to NUP, says that his Ministry is working on a statutory instrument which will operationalize a law that allows Uganda to enter into an agreement with foreign countries under whose jurisdictions Ugandans get tried and convicted for crimes and offences.
The end result is for those countries to surrender those convicted Ugandans to the GoU so that they can be detained and made to serve out their jail sentences within the Ugandan prisons and not abroad.
Mao says the jail duration and the terms of jailing remain the same except that being imprisoned in Uganda to serve the jail sentencing imposed by a foreign country enables such convicts to be accessible to their wives, children and other relatives plus friends who have a right to visit them as often as possible.
Mao says that expediting this arrangement has been necessitated by the predicament of Museveni’s blue-eyed girl Justice Lydia Mugambe who was recently convicted to a jail term in a UK court over slavery-related offences.
Mao says the President is sympathetic to Justice Mugambe because he is convinced that she acted in good faith while flying her former Kampala maid to the UK except that the young woman, who the Judge intended to continue helping, was manipulated to turn against on arrival in the UK.
Mao says the UK government is open to surrendering Mugambe to be jailed in Uganda and he is hopeful all will end well.
Mao adds that the GoU doesn’t want to end on Justice Mugambe which is why even others like Kidandala are already being considered and will equally be helped.
He says even Kidandala acted in good faith to help fellow Ugandans access better opportunities in South Korea only for things to go South for him. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
