Lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi has been received at Kitalya government prison where he was sent after arrest by police.
The lawyer who has been on the run for the past one week since the High Court ordered his arrest to serve the 18months punishment was arrested by police from the entrance of Kyambogo University by police.
Kampala Metropolitan deputy Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire told Endigyito radio today morning that following the arrest, the controversial lawyer was later sent to Kitalya as had been indicated in the warrant of arrest issued against him.
The February 15th arrest warrant had directed that after arrest, Mabirizi should be delivered to prison.
According to Owoyesigyire, the lawyer was duly delivered to Kitalya prison.
When contacted for a comment, Prisons spokesperson, Frank Baine also confirmed the development noting that he reached at around 7:30pm yesterday.
Mabirizi was sentenced to 18months imprisonment by Justice Musa Ssekaana after being found guilty of contempt of court.
Mabirizi who has been in hiding for over a week since court passed the sentence was smoked out from the gate as he tried to access Kyambogo University.
The lawyer has however insisted that the orders by Justice Ssekaana are illegal arguing that no man can be a judge in his own cause.
He consequently ran to the Court of Appeal to challenge all orders including one of fining him shs300 million and imprisoning him 18 months.
The Court of Appeal is expected to hear the application for stay of execution of these orders today.
Meanwhile, the Criminal Investigations Division of the Police Force has summoned lawyer Isaac Ssemakadde for questioning over offensive communication he made in regards to High Court judge, Musa Ssekaana.
The summon letter dated February 21st to Ssemakadde shows that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations is conducting inquiries into alleged offensive communication to the prejudice of Hon. Justice Ssekaana Musa thus he is required to report to CID headquarters on 28/02/2022.
Ssemakadde recently wrote to the Chief Registrar asking for a record of proceedings of this year’s Judges’ Conference to enable him decide the next course of action.
This stemmed from a resolution by the judges that they will not entertain cyber bullying by some lawyers and these singled out Male Mabirizi and Ssemakadde whom they accused of making statements on social media deemed to be a form of cyber bullying against judicial officers.
