The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has dismissed a case of inciting violence against Kawempe North Member of Parliament Muhammad Ssegirinya.
Ssegirinya appeared before Buganda Road Court Chief Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu on Monday morning via the zoom app, and without legal representation.
Chief Magistrate Kamasanyu ruled that the State failed to provide dependable evidence finding the accused guilty of the charges.
Kamasanyu told court that the state witnesses contradicted Ssegirinya’s arrest and statement recording at the Central Police Station.
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Kamasanyu said the witnesses also failed to point to who exactly was incited by Ssegirinya's protest because the violence started after the police officers arrived at the scene.
The prosecution presented three witnesses including Erias Kijjampora, the investigating officer, Flavia Musimenta, the Officer in Charge of the MiniPrice police post who arrested Ssegirinya before handing him to Kampala Central Police Station, and CPS Operations Officer David Nahamya who participated in the arrest and recording statements.
The Kawempe North MP was arrested on March 22, 2021, while protesting at Mini-Price in Kampala against the outcome of last year's presidential election and demanding the release of National Unity Platform supporters detained in various facilities countrywide.
Ssegirinya still faces a similar charge before Grade One Magistrate Siena Owomugisha, over a Facebook post he made. He is also imprisoned at Luzira Maximum Prison on charges of murder and attempted murder over killings in the Greater Masaka.
