By Our Reporter
NATIONAL
Ugandan lawyer based in the Eastern City of Soroti has written to the UK and US governments to tender apologies to Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Annet Anita Among over what he calls unwarranted sanctions.
In a press statement dated 7th October, 2024, Joshua Okello, a Soroti City Lawyer says his demand follows failure by the European Court of Human Rights to hear his case where he protested the sanctions slapped on the Speaker and her husband, Engineer Moses Magogo.
He accuses the Court of deliberately frustrating the hearing of the case because he has overwhelming evidence to the effect that the twin sanctions were simply slapped on the Speaker because she superintended over the passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which President Museveni signed into law.
“In the event that the European Court of Human Rights fears to hear my appeal probably to save face of the Americans and their bootlickers, the British, an apology is appropriate,” says Okello.
He adds that he lodged the case with the European Court of Human Rights in order to show to the world the real truth behind the sanctions.
“But to my surprise, from the time I filed the said case, I have never got any communication about the Court hearing of the said matter,” he says.
Okello argues that the Court’s failure to hear his case is “because their fellow whites have no substantial evidence against the Speaker. This now makes the whole world see the truth and it is a reflection that Hon. Anita Among was innocent.”
Okello ran to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France on Tuesday, 4th June, 2024 following several delays in the High Court Civil Division in Kampala, where he had initially lodged a lawsuit contesting the sanctions enforced on Speaker Anita Among on the 7th May, 2024.
Since initiating the case in Kampala, Okello says he encountered continual postponements, with court officials attributing the backlog of cases from 2023.
