Kiiza has told the Court that the accused persons are students who want to go back to their respective universities and continue with their studies and that the charges against them are bailable by the Court where they are being charged from.
The nine were arrested during protests held in Kampala on Tuesday to support a resolution recently passed by the European Union Parliament to delay the East African oil Pipeline over reports of human rights violations and environmental concerns.
However, in his application filed before the Entebbe Chief Magistrate's Court, Mabirizi acting as a Private Prosecutor has preferred four charges including common nuisance, disobedience of statutory duty and conspiracy to defraud against Mao for posing as the President General of the Democratic Party.
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.
