Court Adjourns Kyanjo case over Sedition controversy

Buganda Road Court has indefinitely adjourned the proceedings of the sedition case against Hussein Kyanjo, MP for Makindye West.

Magistrate Suzan Kanyange said the adjournment will enable the Constitutional court determine the 2005 petition by journalist Andrew Mwenda challenging the constitutionality of the sedition law.

Kanyange said Kyanjo should report to court for mention of the case on July 23 rd this year for further extension of his bail.

The court decision followed an application by Kyanjo's lawyer, Abdul Katuntu whose submissions challenged the director of public prosecutions for continuing preferring the charge in question against people.

Kyanjo is alleged to have uttered seditious words during Tuzibule Amaaso program conducted by CBS Radio on October 24, 2007,

Kyanjo is quoted to have said that President Yoweri Museveni and Intelligence Chief Lieutenant General David Tinyefuza displaced people from Kisozi in Mpigi district.

He is alleged to have further stated that the two reached the decision on grounds that the people in question would infect their cattle with ticks. Kyanjo is also charged with promoting sedition which also arose from his utterances during the same program.

Kyanjo is alleged said that the nomadic pastoralists from Western Uganda also referred to as “Balaalo” were being sent to grab land in Buganda were being protected by the law.