The East African Community Secretary General, Dr Richard Sezibera has petitioned the High Court in Kampala pleading with the judges to save Kampala based lawyer, Fred Mukasa Mbidde and all other eight Ugandan representatives to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA).

In his petition, Dr. Sezibera said that the election of Uganda’s representatives to EALA was legal because he supervised the oath taking exercise for EALA members as stipulated in article 67 of the East African treaty.

Sezibera’s petition follows a petition filed against him and the Attorney General of Uganda, Peter Nyombi by two aggrieved Ugandan youths: Jeremiah Birungi Kamurali and Aarali Byaruhanga, who claim that the election exercise of Ugandan representatives to EALA was illegally done by Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement Government (NRM) headed by Gen. Kaguta Museveni.

Dr Sezibera in his petition says that when Uganda’s EALA representatives were taking oath there was no complaint raised against him for accepting the oath of Ugandan representatives to EALA.

He also says that there was no court order barring him from overseeing the oath-taking exercise.

The Ugandan petitioners want the court to declare that the nine Ugandan EALA members are imposters because they were not vetted by the Parliament vetting committee.
The elections of Ugandan representatives to EALA were held on May 30.