By Spy Uganda
Uganda MPs Allan Ssewanyana and Muhammad Ssegirinya have been granted bail by the High Court in Masaka City-TheSpy Uganda reports exclusively.
The legislators have been in prison since September 2021 facing several charges including murder, related to a spate of killings in the Greater Masaka Region that year.
Masaka High Court Judge, Lawrence Tweyanze on Monday afternoon reasoned with the lawyers of the two legislators that it is their constitutional right for the two to be released on bail but to also enable them get treatment outside prison.
The judge directed that each of the two legislators pays a cash bond of shs20 million as well as depositing their passports with the court.
The sureties for the MPs have each been asked to pay a shs50 million non-cash bond.
The legislators have also been asked to report to the registrar of the International Crimes Division of the High Court in Kampala once a month but also warned against interfering with investigations into their cases.
Chief state attorney, Richard Birivumbuka told court on Monday morning that the DPP had issued a certificate of no objection to the bail application and subsequently asked that the three affidavits filed against the bail application be withdrawn.
The state attorney however asked court for a substantial amount of cash to be imposed on the two legislators if court is to release them on bail.
Ssegirinya and Ssewanyana are accused alongside five others including Mike Sserwadda, Jude Muwonge, Bull Wamala, John Mugerwa and Jackson Kanyike.
