Kampala: Former Bubulo legislator Tonny Kipoi Nsubuga has petitioned High Court challenging his trial in General Court Martial and his subsequent detention in a military facility.
Kipoi was is currently facing treason charges was arrested in Botswana in February alongside a one Robert Kitali and extradited to Uganda in March after reportedly extorting money by posing as witch doctors.
According to petition filed by his lawyers led by Ronald Idulo of Ojok and Company advocates, Kipoi avers that in 2013 the DPP signed a formal notice of abandonment in relation to the same offences that currently against him and in September 2014 was he was released by the High court.
Kipoi says trying him on same facts is illegal and unconstitutional and therefore wants Attorney General, Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and Commander Defence Forces (CDF) of UPDF to respond over that matter.
High Court judge Justice Margaret Oguli has however set June 11th for hearing of the petition as his case in Court martial resumes on Tuesday 13 June.
Prosecution in Makindye General Court Martial alleges that between November 2012 and December 2013, while in various districts of Masaka, Jinja, Kampala Uganda, and Kipoi convened meetings to recruit soldiers with the intention of overthrowing government.
In 2013, Kipoi was allegedly arrested in Congo and charged with treason however he refuted the claims saying he had fled the country because of bad governance under President Yoweri Museveni
Former Bubulo West legislator Tony Kipoi Nsubuga is charged alongside five UPDF soldiers: Sgt. Yunus Lemeriga, Sgt. Adams Mawa, Sgt. Albino Okenge, Cpl Rogers Mwiru, and Private Ddodola Ijosiga.
