Without benefiting from any services of a lawyer and by refusing to defend themselves, the two men who wore freshly slaughtered pig heads and labeled them with names of Bank of Uganda officials who they accused of mismanagement, have convinced the Magistrate to acquit them of public nuisance charges and directed that each of them get a refund of the 500,000 shillings each had paid to be released on bail.
Nyanzi was arrested at Nakasero Market within Kampala city, on Wednesday alongside businessmen Godfrey Katongole and Isaac Newton for allegedly behaving in a manner that was likely to inconvenience other people and disregarding guidelines put in place to control the spread of COVID-19.
Today, as the deadline elapsed, with no response to his request, Buwembo staged a protest at the High Court Criminal Division. With a bag in one hand, a mat, a pair of bedsheets and a pillow in another, Buwembo started a protest affixed with a hunger strike to reportedly send a message of dissatisfaction to the judiciary.
