The Man who threatened to kill Ugandan Judges in Seven days has been thrown behind police cells pending investigations.
36 year old, Ivan Samuel Ssebadduka is a resident of Zzana town, along Entebbe Road, in Wakiso District and a failed presidential aspirant.
He recently filed an application with the Supreme Court seeking to block virtual presidential campaigns and suspend mandatory collection of signatures by presidential aspirants.
In his application, he abused the seven judges of the Supreme Court as a “council of fools, the Electoral Commission chairman, the president of Uganda and Ministry of Health officials as ignorant and unintelligible on the basics of COVID-19.
He was summoned to court over his rude language which could be considered in contempt of court but Ssebadduka instead acted indifferently.
He later addressed another nail-biting letter this week to Chief Justice Alfonse Owinyi Dollo informing him of a plot to wipe out a number of Judges in a matter of days.
This letter activated panic in the senior justice system prompting immediate investigations from Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID.
Assistant Superintendent of Police –ASP Charles Twine, says it was a matter they took seriously considering the gravity of the threat.
“As police, we have the capacity to protect the judges but we cannot ignore these threats. Such threats have previously happened and people have indeed been killed. We have arrested him and we need to know what his actual motive is,” ASP Twine said.
A number of high profile people have died from similar threats like the Prosecutor Joan Kagezi, Buyende DPC Muhammad Kirumira, Police Spokesperson AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi, Sheikh Mustafa Bahiga, Sheikh Kirya, and Maj Muhammad Kiggundu.
