Justice Kavuma gets more popular as he nears retirement

















BY CHRISTOPHER KISEKKA

As the year 2017 clocked in, the Deputy Chief Justice of Uganda, Justice Steven Kavuma, started branding himself a celebrity and now he is popular as he is known by many Ugandans for specifically two reasons.

Recently Justice Kavuma reportedly said that he had sworn an affidavit amending his age to reflect he is four years younger than his current officially known age.

The man insisted that his age had been altered and portrayed as younger than he actually has been publicly known.

This came after Mr Kavuma’s name reflected on the list of judicial officers that were submitted to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for retirement this year.

These brought up a big public debate and everybody wondered whether someone can use defy the nature laws by amending his/her age.

Some days passed and the same person found his face on the front page of some dailies as he issued an order stopping Parliament or any individual from investigating the Shs6b oil cash bonanza gifted out to 42 government officials for the role they purportedly played in the oil dispute between Uganda and Heritage Oil and Tullow Oil over capital gains tax.

This was after Mr Eric Sabiiti’s (legal officer with the Electoral Commission) petition to the Constitutional Court seeking an order to block any investigation into the oil cash bonanza.

The petition that had been filed to block Parliament’s inquiry into the Shs6b oil cash bonanza was withdrawn in what Daily monitor’s Anthony Waseka described as a ‘dramatic move’.
The withdraw of the petition by lawyers of Candia & DW . Oundo Advocates on behalf of their client Eric Sabiiti paved way for Parliament to resume with its activities, days after Speaker Rebecca Kadaga in a heated debate castigated Justice Steven Kavuma’s court order describing it as ‘stupid’.
According to the Speaker, the ‘stupid order’ was intended to gag the lawmakers from debating the Shs6bn cash bonus where she directed the Attorney General to the court order vacated before Parliament can resume the sittings.
The two incidents plus many others tracked in the past have left the public doubting the credibility of Mr Kavuma who is driving to his retirement.
During a TV programme, Mr Tamale Mirundi also regretted to have wished Kavuma the top job in the countries judicially. 





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