High court judge Dr. Douglas Singiza has decried the bitterness of some Ugandans and other individuals abroad for using various social media platforms to unleash their dis satisfaction to him during the period he was handling Dr. Kiiza Besigye and Hajji Obeid Lutale’s Habeas corpus Application.
In his ruling where he dismissed Besigye’s application for having been overtaken by events, Singiza noted that ever since he was allocated Besigye’s file, he was subjected to numerous attacks on social media in the form of insults and personal threats to his life and his closest relatives.
“I take particular issue
with some of the alleged satire in form of cartoon drawings that suggested that I was probably
a Nazi judge. Untrue insinuations were also made that I was very much under the spell of powerful persons in government, an allegation that could easily bring the integrity and competency of this court into question. In many jurisdictions of the world, any depiction of an individual as a Nazi apologist is prima facie evidence of criminal prejudice.”
He reminded those who trolled him, that courts in this country perform their duties with fear or favor but basing on the law and evidence before them.