President Museveni has summoned what he has termed as a “special” meeting for the Central Executive Committee (CEC), a top organ of the ruling National Resistance Movement party.
According to the notice issued by the party chairperson Yoweri Museveni, the seventh meeting of the fourth Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Organisation is to be held today at Entebbe, starting at 2pm.
Whereas the agenda is not clear on what is to be discussed during the meeting, it is expected that the issue of bail reforms is expected to be on the card during the meeting of the top organ of the ruling NRM party.
President Museveni has been a proponent of the proposed reforms on bail and police bond.
The right to bail is a fundamental right guaranteed by Article 23 (6) of the 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda.
The constitution says that where a person is arrested in respect of a criminal offence, they are entitled to apply to the court to be released on bail and the court may or may not grant that person bail on such conditions as the court considers reasonable.
The president has also in the past expressed similar sentiments towards giving bond to suspects in capital offences.
Recently, it was reported that Cabinet had endorsed criminal justice reforms, among them amendments to the 1995 Constitution and the Police Act, to deny suspects on capital offences bail or police bond and suspects on murder, rape, robbery and treason charges, among others, as the main target for the proposed reforms.
