CAO mistakes Supreme Court judge for Uganda’s Chief Justice

What you need to know:

  • Gulu Chief Administrative Officer Ms Dorothy Ajwang amused participants at Gulu High Court when she referred to Supreme Court judge Augustine Nshimye as Chief Justice.
  • The begging attitude of the records officer disturbed the Inspector of Courts who summoned the cashier to avail the team money to purchase the high lighters.

A whole Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) addresses a Supreme Court judge as Chief Justice. Elsewhere, Moroto court officials fear to comment about why they had to charge Dr Kizza Besigye beyond the official court and at High Court a house maid bursts into tears of joy on learning that she had been acquitted on accusations of defiling her boss’ two-year boy. Here are some of the funny things that happened in court this week.

At Gulu High Court
Gulu Chief Administrative Officer Ms Dorothy Ajwang amused participants at Gulu High Court when she referred to Supreme Court judge Augustine Nshimye as Chief Justice.
Ms Ajwang amused the participants who were attending a stakeholders meeting that was discussing challenges facing children’s issues in the Acholi sub region. There is only one Chief Justice in Uganda who is Bart Katureebe.

At Moroto Chief Magistrates' Court
A few months after Moroto Court came into the spotlight for

Besigye charged with treason

Former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) presidential candidate Kizza Besigye has been charged with treason and remanded to Moroto government prison

former FDC presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye at 6pm, which is one hour beyond the official court hours, a question was posed to them to that effect by our reporter. The judicial officers only said the judiciary had already addressed the issue.

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At Mbale Court
A records officer shocked the Inspector of Courts, Justice Augustine Nshimye when he asked the judge to avail the Criminal Registry with office stationery in form of “high-lighters” so that they can use them for highlighting children cases. Justice Nshimye had advised the Mbale Court Registry staff in his recent tour of courts in Easter and Northern part of the country that in order to easily identify those cases involving children from their registry book, they should high light them but the staff didn’t have the stationery. The begging attitude of the records officer disturbed the Inspector of Courts who summoned the cashier to avail the team money to purchase the high lighters.

At High Court, Criminal Division
On hearing the good news from the judge that

Court clears maid over molesting boy

The High Court in Kampala has set free a housemaid who was accused of defiling her boss’ two-year-old boy and performing other sexual acts on the toddler

, a house maid who had been accused of defiling her boss’ two-year boy, cried tears of joy on learning that she was at last free. She left the court dock while lifting her arms in the air as a sign of praising God for seeing her through. Even on sitting down on her bench, she continued crying in disbelieve.
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