By Steven Enatu
SOROTI CITY
Soroti city authorities have asked for more time to respond to a contempt of court case filed by Soroti city renowned lawyer, Patrick Joshua Okello commonly known as Jokel.
The City together with the Attorney General has been dragged to court by Okello in a contempt of court case arising from the miscellaneous application no 13 of 2022.
In the case, Okello had dragged Soroti City to court in October 2022 for illegal street parking of passenger vehicles, loading and offloading of passengers along the streets of Soroti city which has caused several deaths in accidents.
In April this year, court made a ruling in favor of Okello who had picked the matter in public interest tasking Soroti city council to restrain offloading, Parking of passenger vehicles on street parking lots, construction of the around about and a bus terminal.
Despite these court orders, Soroti city has done nothing and passenger vehicles still continue to park and load passengers along the streets.
The contempt of court orders were scheduled for hearing on Tuesday, 21st November, 2023 at Soroti high court, however through their legal representative, the city authority has asked for a period of two weeks to respond to the matter.
This was before the high court registrar Hussein Nasulu Ntalo who then rescheduled the matter to 6th of December 2023.
In the case, Okello wants Soroti city to be tasked to implement the court directives and pay a fine of 800,000shs for disobeying court orders.
