The Executive Director of the government-owned Uganda Media Centre, Ofwono Opondo, has been dragged to court for allegedly uttering defamatory and slanderous statements targeting Edgar Agaba, the suspended Chief Executive Officer of the National Gaming Board (NGB).
Agaba dragged Ofwono to court on November 13, 2019 through his lawyers of M/S T-Davis Wesley & Co. Advocates and Solicitors.
Agaba avers that the defendant defamed and slandered him on October 23, 2019 during a press conference at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala.
Agaba wants Ofwono to pay him general damages for uttering defamatory and slanderous statements about him while addressing journalists on the said date.
Ofwono is required to file his defence within fifteen days from the date of service of sermons. He received the sermons on November 22, 2019.
