The High Court is yet to give a ruling in preliminary objections raised by Uganda’s Attorney General and the Secretary General of the East African Community, opposing a petition in which two NRM youths are seeking to recall Uganda’s members of the EALA on ground that they were illegally elected.
The ruling had been slated for last week, but the court deferred it to an unnamed date in future on the ground that it was not ready for delivery.
Earlier, the youths, Jeremiah Birungi Kamurali and Robert Araali Byaruhanga Tumusiime filed a petition contending that Uganda’s members to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) were illegally elected and should be recalled and fresh elections should be conducted.
However, before the petition could be heard, the Attorney General and the EALA’s Secretary General opposed it saying that they had filed it late and contrary to the Parliamentary Elections Act that stipulates 30 days within which they should have filed it.
It had been also argued that apart from Kamurali’s affidavit supporting the petition, Tumusiime, the second petitioner, had not sworn an affidavit as required by law.
It had been further argued that the petitioners should have petitioned against the 9 members that represent Uganda on the EALA, because the outcome would be affecting them and; therefore, they should not be condemned unheard.
It had also been argued that the High Court had no jurisdiction to hear such matters concerning the EALA elections.
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