The Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) has blamed the judiciary for causing unnecessary delays in the trial of several cases despite the overwhelming evidence sent to court.
Charles Twine, the CID Spokesperson, said over the years they have noticed that many cases whose evidence was fully gathered even before they went to court have not been heard and keep piling.
Twine says in cases like Susan Magara and Maria Nagirinya, detectives collected all the necessary evidence for trial but it has gone to three years without being heard and unfortunately, some people blame it on the police.
Irene Nakimbugwe, the Deputy Spokesperson Directorate of Public Prosecution, agrees with CID that indeed the evidence was collected, suspects charged and remanded but the judiciary does not fix dates for trial or hearing of cases.
CID records show by the end of 2020, 36,881 cases were pending while the year 2019 ended with 40,085 cases were pending in court
In response to Twine and Nakimbugwe, Judiciary Spokesperson, James Karemani, said the two institutions know why cases take long to be concluded despite the satisfying evidence.
Karemani reechoed cries of insufficient funding, few judges, and magistrates noting that it’s not easy for 68 judges to deliver justice to 45 million Ugandans.
