{After losing her job in a confidence vote last week, ousted East African Legislative Assembly Speaker Margaret Zziwa is going to court to try to unseat her successor and also demand $ 1m (Shs 2.7bn) in compensation, her lawyers have said.}
Although she failed to block the sitting which culminated into her impeachment last week, Zziwa is moving to amend her petition before the East African Court of Justice to seek the annulment of the election of new EALA Speaker Daniel Kidega on grounds that it was “illegal.”
Kidega was elected unopposed last week.
“We are going to amend only one bit in our original petition to provide for the annulment of the election of Kidega as the speaker [of EALA]and then seek for the order of her reinstatement because it was done in total breach of the law,” Zziwa’s lawyer, Jet Tumwebaze of Kampala Associated Advocates, told The Observer by telephone on December 22.
“And I have no doubt that the court will nullify Kidega’s election because we have enough grounds and there is no court world over worth its name that can fail to concur with our client,” he added.
Asked whether they would seek any compensation, Tumwebaze was positive.
“… Of course, we are [seeking]damages for injuring her name and wasting her time,” he said.
Asked how much, Tumwebaze said: “We are asking for $ 1m about [Shs 2.7bn].”
“It’s worth it because we are not talking about a councilor, a district speaker of a municipality but a speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly.”
The court re-convenes on February 3 2014 to handle Zziwa’s petition.
The Observer
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