President Yoweri Museveni has asked judicial officers to be cautious when granting bail to capital offenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c The public does not understand the idea of Police bond. It is dangerous for the credibility of the judicial system. Bail is also another danger for crimes like murder, rape, defilement and others. Even though there is pressure of too much work, I advise the Judiciary to prioritise these serious offences and dispose them,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was presiding over the swearing in ceremony of the new Chief Justice, Alphonse Owiny-Dollo and his Deputy Justice Richard Buteera, at State House Entebbe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Museveni congratulated both Justice Alphonse Owinyi- Dollo whom he said they have worked together for a long time. He said Justice Butera was also at Dar-es-Salaam University \u201cwhen we were there in our own military endeavors. I congratulate him too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Yoweri Museveni has asked judicial officers to be cautious when granting bail to capital offenders. \u201c The public does<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/alphonse.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2704,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/museveni-promises-to-increase-number-of-judicial-officers-while-chief-justice-owiny-dollo-announces-new-land-evictions-practice-directives-of-2021\/","url_meta":{"origin":1922,"position":0},"title":"MUSEVENI PROMISES TO INCREASE NUMBER OF JUDICIAL OFFICERS WHILE CHIEF JUSTICE OWINY DOLLO ANNOUNCES NEW LAND EVICTIONS PRACTICE DIRECTIVES OF 2021","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"February 8, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"President Yoweri Museveni has accepted the request by the judiciary to deploy \u00a0a Chief Magistrate for every district in the county to ease the dispensation of justice while also calling for optimal planning to better utilize the limited national resources available . 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