Uganda: Court to Hear DPC Mwesigye's Defence Over Assaulting Scribe

Buganda Road Court will on Wednesday hear the defence of former Old Kampala DPC Joram Mwesigye, accused of assaulting a WBS TV journalist Andrew Lwanga. Lwanga sustained spinal injuries from the said assault and he is walking on crutches.

Last month Grade One Magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu ruled that Mwesigye had a case to answer basing on the evidence of six prosecution witnesses presented, and ordered that he should respond to the allegation.

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