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"In my language they say you cannot kill a messenger I was merely saying what is common knowledge." 
Asked if his job was on the line, Kanyeihamba said: "If [Museveni] has to sack me he has to follow the Constitution and I have done nothing wrong to constitute a sacking," he told journalists.

Joseph Mulenga, Paul Mugamba, and Ana Magezi are some of the judges attending the three-day workshop.

It gets better by the day. I just wish those attending the same workshop could add their voices too. Evils do triumph because good men choose to do nothing (Edmund Burke).

Charles Eliba

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  From: Yoga Adhola 
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  Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:43 AM
  Subject: Kanyeihamba challenges Museveni.


  Kanyeihamba defiant over peasant remarks
  By Otushabire Tibyangye & Felix Basiime
  March 23, 2004

        MBARARA - Justice George Kanyeihamba said yesterday he is not bothered by criticism from President Museveni over his views on peasants.

        "I am not going to lose sleep," the Supreme Court justice said yesterday at the sidelines of a workshop at Lake View Regency Hotel here.

        "I wish he could call me so that I explain my position," he added.

        Kanyeihamba told a parliamentary workshop last week that peasants are not decision makers and should not provide the justification to lift the presidential term limits from the 1995 Constitution.

        At a public rally in Mbale on Sunday, Mr Museveni said Kanyeihamba should be disciplined for speaking on political matters - and that the judge would have to explain his comments about peasants.

        At the workshop yesterday, Kanyeihamba presented a paper, 'Towards strengthening judicial integrity in Uganda; new approaches,' and later defended his position.

        "What I stated are mere facts reflected in our Constitution," he said.

        He added: "There's no peasant in Parliament; that is why we have minimum qualifications of senior six for Parliamentarians, LC V and other leaders."

        "These are the people the executive pass on the decisions through downwards and not vice versa," Kanyeihamba added.

        Kanyeihamba also deflected criticism from the President, that he is not fit to be a judge.

        "Right thinking Ugandans can make their own judgement whether I am fit to be a judge," he said.

        "Museveni is entitled to his own opinion and in my language they say you cannot kill a messenger; I was merely saying what is common knowledge."

        Asked if his job was on the line, Kanyeihamba said: "If [Museveni] has to sack me he has to follow the Constitution and I have done nothing wrong to constitute a sacking," he told journalists.

        "The President has the prerogative of making the remarks he made on me."

        Joseph Mulenga, Paul Mugamba, and Ana Magezi are some of the judges attending the three-day workshop.
       


  © 2004 The Monitor Publications

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