The Luzira Chief Magistrates Court has remanded Miria Matembe, the former Minister for Ethics and Integrity to Luzira Prison on charges of promoting sectarianism.
The 73-year-old appeared before Grade One Magistrate Sheilah Gloria Atim yesterday evening and was remanded until today when the court is expected to hear her bail application.
According to the prosecution, during this month at Nakawa Division in Kampala, Matembe allegedly made statements on DK TV Uganda to the effect that “all our taxes are being spent on the Banyankole women ministers.”
Prosecutors contend that the remarks were likely to promote hostility, hatred, or ill will against members of the Banyankole ethnic group.
Matembe denied the charge and entered a plea of not guilty.
She asked the court to grant her bail, citing her poor health.
However, the magistrate declined to consider the request because no formal bail application had been filed electronically, in line with the judiciary’s current procedures governing bail applications.
Matembe reportedly went missing last week, a day after security personnel raided her home in Luzira in an attempt to arrest her. She was not at the residence during the operation.
Sources later told Favour FM that she was arrested at a hotel along Gayaza Road, where she had allegedly been staying.
By URN
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