Kudos to judge on legal officer ruling

This newspaper reported in yesterday’s edition that a High Court judge had quashed a directive from a State House legal officer to give away land in the heart of Kampala city.

Justice Boniface Wamala observed that Ms Sandra Ndyomugyenyi, a legal officer at State House, was wrong to clear the give-away of land near Mulago roundabout.

First, the judge was right in stating that the legal officer had no power to do so, and secondly the land matter was still in court.

This ruling should sound as a warning to all people in placers of authority who…