Kampala Lord Mayor, Erias Lukwago has set April 14th the date he will be re-occupying his office at the Mayor’ Parlor at the City Hall, from which he has been kept out for over three years.
Lukwago told journalists at his law firm offices at Media Plaza that his patience with KCCA technical wing had instead resulted into abuse of the people’s office.
KCCA staff headed by the Executive Director, Jennifer Musisi while appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Presidential affairs this week stated that The Lord Mayor, like any other elected politicians would have to wait until May when they get sworn in to return to his office or obtain a court order.
“Such assertions are outrageous and aimed at lowering my esteem in the eyes of the right thinking members of society; there is no court order that bars me from accessing the office of the Lord Mayor that was entrusted to me by the people of Kampala way back in 2011,” Lukwago said.
Lukwago argued, “The purported impeachment was foiled by two Court orders issued by the Registrar High Court and Justice Yassin Nyanzi on the 25th and 28th of November 2013 respectively.”
“All the government officials who made futile attempts to circumvent the orders were consequently condemned as contemnors in a subsequent Court decision made by Justice Lydia Mugambe on the 28th March 2014.”
Lukwago noted that this decision was not satisfying to the Attorney General (AG) by then, who desired to pursue an appeal in a Superior Court whereupon they secured an interim order from Justice Kavuma sitting as single judge in a Board room.
“The interim order issued on April 1, 2014 was meant to last for only 21 days so as to give the AG a temporary reprieve as he pursued the hearing of the main application for stay of execution and ultimately file an appeal in the Court of Appeal.”
“The record clearly shows that the 21 days lapsed without the AG filing the Appeal not even causing the main application for stay of execution to be heard and accordingly the interim order expired and has never been renewed.”
Lukwago says he has now written to the Executive Director demanding for an apology over the fallacious statements that there are legal fetters barring him from accessing the Lord Mayor’s office.
He has notified that he shall be officially accessing the office of the Lord Mayor on Thursday April 14 at exactly 11:00am and that the director Human Resource should work out all the necessary arrangements to receive him.