Police have deployed at the Supreme Court building in Kololo following a fire that gutted the Chief Justice’s chambers on Wednesday morning.
According to eyewitnesses, the fire broke out in the Chief Justice’s chambers on the third floor destroying several documents.
Fire and Rescue Services officers managed to contain the fire and stop it from spreading to other parts of the highest court in the country.
However, shortly after containing the fire, a team of regular police officers cordoned off the Supreme Court building at about midday with yellow tapes as a Crime Scene.
According to Jamson Karemani the Judiciary Spokesperson, the few people he has talked to believe the fire started from the Air Conditioning System-AC.
Karemani called for calm from the public, saying no Court file was affected by the fire since all files are kept in the Registry.
Although he claims no file was affected by the fire, sources say some files outside the chief justice’s offices were damaged in the process of putting out the fire.
Currently, all the activities of the Supreme Court have been suspended.
Karemani says he is not sure when the supreme court business will resume. By the time of the fire outbreak, Chief Justice Alphonse Owiny-Dollo was attending a meeting in his office at the High Court Criminal Division, which doubles as the Judiciary Headquarters.
