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Uganda: Govt to Gather Evidence Electronically
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The Monitor (Kampala)
5 May 2008
Posted to the web 5 May 2008
Solomon Muyiita
Entebbe
Government will soon resort to more advanced ways of gathering evidence using electronic means, the president revealed on Friday.
President Yoweri Museveni, who was swearing in 13 new judges at the State House of Entebbe, said the ruling NRM Party Caucus recently approved a proposed law that will operationalise getting evident by electronic means.
"We want to capture this new system in a law," said the President, adding that the issue will soon be discussed in Cabinet then referred to the legislators to make it law.
He said that much of the evidence gathered by the United States of America following the famous September 11 terrorist attack was through technology. "These people got evidence from cameras, audio recorders and things like that. We need to advance to that level," he said.
"We want to avoid seeing judges asking people in court that: 'Tell me what you saw? Were you there? Did you see? Was it dark?' Such things make the whole process like a game," he said.
Justice Galdino Okello, who has been on the Court of Appeal, was promoted to the Supreme Court bench, while former state minister for regional corporation Augustine Nshimye Ssebutulo was sworn in as Court of Appeal justice.
The 11 judges who were sworn in to join the High Court bench are Ralph Ochan, Lawrence Gidudu, Jane Kiggundu, Joseph Murangira, Simon Byabakama, Anup Singh Choudry, Wilson Kwesiga, Alphonse Owiny Dolo, Elizabeth Musoke, Benjamin Kabiito and Irene Mulyagonja.
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The President who said he is shocked at the way judges operate more like stenographers in the courts, challenged the judiciary to come up with more advanced and efficient ways of disposition of cases.
"How can a judge presiding over a case be the very person to write down everything being said? You are like a stenographer," said Mr Museveni.
"I told the Chief Justice to look at the procedures used elsewhere, so that judges can do more of the thinking and less writing in court. You can only note down a few important points. I think this is a form of inefficiency."
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