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Constitutional Court trims police powers in public order law

GEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior Correspondent by GEORGE OKELLO | PML Daily Senior Correspondent
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The Constitutional Court has nullified Section 8 of the Public Order Management Act (POMA), 2013, saying it is inconsistent with the construction that guarantees human freedom of association.

In a majority decision of 4:1, the Justices poked holes in sections of the law that grant police officers authority to stop or prevent a public gathering.

The four Justices are Kenneth Kakuru, Elizabeth Musoke and Cheboroin Barishaki and Geoffrey Kiryabwire while Stephen Musota was the only dissenting Justice.
Section 8 (1) of POMA 2013, reads: “Subject to the directions of the IGP, an authorised officer or any other police officer of or above the rank of inspector, may stop or prevent the holding of a public meeting where the public meeting is held contrary to this Act.”

It adds: “An authorised officer may, for the purposes of subsection (1), issue orders, including an order for the dispersal of the public meeting, as are reasonable in the circumstances.”

Six other organisations including Human Rights Network Uganda, Development Network of Indigenous Voluntary Associations (Deniva), the Uganda Association of Women Lawyers (Fida-Uganda), Chapter Four, Butambala MP Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi and the retired assistant bishop of Kampala, Dr Zac Niringiye, had in 2013, gone to court, challenging the constitutionality of POMA.

The group had asked court to declare the law inconsistent with the 1995 Constitution and in contravention of Uganda’s international legal obligations.

However, it remains to be seen if the scrapping of a section of the Act renders the rest useless.

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