Justice Kisakye, Laywers Storms Out of JSC Inquiry Meeting- See Why?

Supreme Court Judge Esther Kisakye, alongside her lawyers, yesterday stormed out of a Judicial Service Commission (JSC) meeting.

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The meeting was meant to listen to her disagreement with Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo.

According to Justice Kisaakye’s lawyer Peter Walubiri, they decided to abandon the said meeting at Serena Hotel in Kigo having realising that the Commission had deviated from the interface arrangement earlier agreed upon.

“An interface means you hear the accused, then the accuser and separately without the two facing each other. But today, it became very clear that there was no legal process being followed and we told the Commission that Justice Kisaakye could not accompany them along a none-constitutional and illegal path,” Mr Walubiri said.

He explained that yesterday’s meeting dates back to the 2021 presidential petition by Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, challenging President Museveni’s win in a case that was being heard by the Supreme Court that saw Justice Kisaakye’s dissenting ruling allegedly confiscated on the orders of the Chief Justice. 

Owiny-Dollo and Justice Owiny-Dollo declined to comment about the closed-door meeting, although he briefly confirmed to have had an engagement chaired by the chairperson of the JSC, Justice Benjamin Kabiito.

Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka, who was also part of the meeting, declined to comment on the matter.

The meeting with the two justices comes at a time Justice Kisaakye has sued the Chief Justice and almost the entire top Judiciary management accusing them of victimising her by withholding her salary, denying her work, among others.

The JSC has also been sued by Justice Kisaakye, accusing it of commencing investigations against her disguised as a general inquiry without observing any due process and all set procedures under the Constitution.