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intention
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the era of its enactment,
in
could
have
67
the
effect
have
colonial rulers.
may
Section
was
good
suppress
of formenting
In the absence
been
to
I am
native
of the view that
dissenting
insurrection
views
against
of a constitutionally guaranteed
law at the time,
not to the freedom agitations.
therefore,
the
right it
at least to the ruling elite though
It may, therefore, have served a purpose at
the time.
legal procedents
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for the Applicants
case of CHARLES
GENERAL
(Constitutional
Country
of that
Court
of
50
Section
the
Appeal No. 2 of
Penal
Ugandan
in
2002)
Code
is the
again
v. ATTORNEY
which the Supreme
the
constitutionality
which
criminalised
alia,
inter
considered,
& ANOTHER
OBBO
ONYANGO
cited by Counsel
to home
Near
67.
Section
in attacking
Ugandan
the diaspora were
from
publication of false news, very similar to the Zambia’s
of
the
Section 67 in most
material aspects.
case, the appellants had been charged with publishing false
In the OBBO
news
in a newspaper
The
report.”
Democratic
article
Republic
article
titled
“Kabila
alleged,
inter
alia,
of Congo
had
paid
that
the
Uganda
new
in
says
Gold,
President
of the
of gold to
given a large consignment
the Government of Uganda as payment for “services rendered” by Uganda
in the removal of the former military dictator, the late Mobutu
The
which
appellants
the
state
challenged
had
their
invoked
to
prosecution
prosecute
rights guaranteed by the constitution.
contending
them
violated
Sese Seko.
that
their
the
law
several
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