Uganda: MPs Want Open Vetting of Judges

MPs on the Public Accounts Committee have called for more transparency in the appointment of judges in order to weed out the appointment of "undeserving people" to the judicial benches.

The legislators have labeled the current system which does not provide for public scrutiny of recruits to the judiciary as being responsible for the occasional appointment of judges of questionable moral integrity.

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