The East African Court of Justice has finally given its judgment on Ref No 6 of 2011, the Democratic Party, Mukasa Fred Mbidde VERSUS the Secretary General of The East African Community and the Attorney General of Uganda government, Walakira Nyanzi reports from Tanzania.

The Democratic Party (DP) through its Chief Legal Adviser, Mukasa Mbidde lodged a case before this court arguing that the rules of procedure for election of members of EALA don’t conform to provisions of the East African Treaty and accordingly refer to numerical strength as a standard of election thereby DISCRIMINATING against the Democratic Party and Mukasa Fred Mbidde, who was the second applicant and opposition parties represented at parliament from being represented at EALA.

The court has Slammed a permanent injunction against The Parliament of Uganda, The Attorney General of The Republic of Uganda, The Secretary General East African Community and The East African Legislative Assembly prohibiting the above entities from conducting elections, administering oath of office, accepting and recording of names of any persons elected until Parliament of Uganda makes Rules of procedure conforming to the Article 50 of the treaty.

By implication of this ruling all parties with MPs in Uganda parliament should not be discriminated against and accordingly once represented in the house shoud be represented at EALA. The judges included 1.Principle Judge .Johnson Busingye who read the judgment. Others were Mary Stella Arach Amoko, John M Nkwawa and Livingstone Lenaola.