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DPP appeals against acquittal of Dr Nyanzi on offensive communication 

DAVID MAFABI | PML Daily Senior Staff Writer by DAVID MAFABI | PML Daily Senior Staff Writer
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Stella Nyanzi speaks to the court before she was sentenced to 9 months. (PHOTO/File)

KAMPALA – The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), has appealed against the acquittal of imprisoned Makerere University Research fellow, Dr Stella Nyanzi on the charges of offensive communication.

The DPP has opted to file an appeal at the High Court, saying the magistrate Ms Kamasanyu failed to properly evaluate the evidence on record and arrived at the wrong conclusion to acquit Dr Nyanzi.

“The learned trial magistrate erred in law and fact when she held that the Facebook post in issue was not repeated and she, therefore, arrived at the wrong conclusion in acquitting the respondent,” the appeal documents accessed by PML Daily read in part.

The DPP’s appeal describes Ms Kamasanya’s judgment as leading to miscarriage of justice and the appeal further adds that,

“… trial magistrate erred in law and fact when she stated that the appellant did not prove that the post in issue disturbed the peace quiet or right of privacy of His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni with no purpose of legitimate communication,”

The appeal says the DPP is seeking the High Court to allow this appeal, set aside and reverse the judgement of Ms Kamasanyu as well as maintain the conviction and sentence on count one of cyber harassment.

On August 1, 2019, Buganda Road Court Grade One Magistrate, Gladys Kamasanyu, found Dr Nyanzi guilty of cyber harassment before acquitting her on the second count of offensive communication in connection to harassing the president and insulting his late mother in a Facebook post.

The DPP’s appeal comes at the time Dr Nyanzi is also challenging her conviction and sentence before the same court.

Dr Nyanzi who is expected to serve nine months in Luzira prison in her appeal argues that the court did not have the jurisdiction to allow a charge that was incurably defective, unacceptably vague and barred by law.

She also complains that Ms Kamasanyu erred in law and fact when she failed to accord her (Nyanzi) the necessary facilities to compel the attendance of witnesses and thereby infringed on her right to a fair hearing.

Dr Nyanzi also adds that the magistrate failed to properly evaluate the evidence on record, thereby arriving at a wrong decision in convicting the appellant of cyber harassment.

Basing on that Dr Nyanzi is seeking the High Court to quash her conviction and the punishment set aside stressing that the magistrate passed an illegal and disproportionate sentence.

Utility:

The prosecution contended that on September 16, 2018, Dr Nyanzi posted on her Facebook page suggestions deemed obscene against the President’s deceased mother.

It is stated further that she (Nyanzi) also repeatedly posted messages to disturb or attempted to disturb the peace, quiet or right to privacy of the President.

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