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Okumu was on October eleventh 2022 indicted by the Norms, Utilities and Untamed life Court Boss Judge Gladys Kamasanyu and shipped off Luzira Jail where he has since been.
This was after he was viewed as at legitimate fault for malevolently and over and over utilized his email address akumu4036@gmail.com to irritate Jane Frances Abodo the Head of Public Indictments by sending compromising messages and connections to her authority email address jane.abodo@dpp.go.ug which she got and seen from her PC inside Kampala region, fully intent on setting her under sensible apprehension for her wellbeing. Akumu likewise sent undermining messages and connections to DPP official email address without really any motivation behind genuine correspondence.
Akumu had purportedly taken steps to print out Abodo's photographs and nail them to all boards across East Africa to such an extent that everybody including President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni who is Abodo's delegating authority could realize that she is evidently a bad individual.
The issue had supposedly begun when Akumu acquired unknown measure of cash from somebody and set up his truck as security. Thus, Akumu is said to have returned to Kenya and vanished for quite a long time which constrained the individual who had given him cash to sell the truck and recuperate his money.
Be that as it may, when Akumu surfaced and opened up an instance of burglary of his vehicle at the Law Improvement Center Court in Kampala, the person in question, Deo Oguliti grumbled and the document was reviewed to the administrative center where the DPP tracked down it . The DPP examined through the record and found that the casualty had no case and thusly shut the case document and it's when Akumu began sending her undermining messages that the woman Equity had purportedly been paid off.
Following the conviction and ensuing sentence, Akumu recorded an application looking for modification of his sentence in the High Court.
Accordingly on Tuesday, Akumu through his attorneys from Place for Lawful Guide drove by Isaac Ssemakadde told the Court directed by Equity Isaac Muwata that the lower court acted without ward when it led the reproved preliminary by which the blamed was indicted and in this manner condemned.
They said the lower court likewise acted unlawfully , unpredictably and inappropriately when it arrived at a choice that outlandishly and lopsidedly disregard the right to the right to speak freely of discourse revered in the constitution and public Targets subsequently, unnatural birth cycle of equity .
They likewise say the lower court acted illicitly and sporadically and inappropriately when it directed a preliminary depending on a horribly damaged charge sheet in this manner ocassioning an unnatural birth cycle of equity.
Ssemakadde let Court know that he was indicted for the offenses previously subdued by the Established Court in Andrew Karamagi 's request where it was viewed as invalid and void , and in this manner implementation of that part was accordingly remained.
He added that there is no allure in this choice, no request for stay of execution, and that the impact is clear , the charging segment having been announced invalid and void .
Ssemakadde further let Court know that the essence of there case is that, the preliminary continued on a horribly faulty charge sheet in four material viewpoints . He said these incorporated that there was exclusion of specifics of the geo area of the candidate, PC, information or program utilized in sending the supposedly culpable correspondence which contradicts some segment under PC Abuse Act which was as yet usable at that point , and the choice of the Great court in criminal in Dr Stella Nyanzi body of evidence against the State when she was having to deal with comparative penalties yet was vindicated.
He made sense of additional that the Arraignment overlooked specifics of the particular danger supposedly made by the Akumu with the goal to put the complainant,the DPP of Uganda in sensible apprehension for her safety."Omitted specifics of the apparent demonstration, means or modes purportedly utilized by the candidates to hassle the DPP", Ssemakadde further told court.
He added that the "count precluded specifics of notoriety on various events when they said the specific danger were purportedly rehashed.
Ssemakadde further let court know that the Indictment brought a digital wrongdoing master who said he was told to recognize the Web Convention - IP address of the supposed culprit and the gadget utilized.
Court heard that the observer distinguished two locations without giving court an understanding thereof, for example, geolocation of Akumu or gadget utilized at the hour of the forthcoming correspondence. Yet again ssemakadde further noticed that the observer anyway appropriately made sense of that the electronic correspondence in issue was executed on Google servers whose area is vague or obscure.
In the Stella Nyanzi case, this court was clear in it's observing that there is no reason in digital wrongdoing to neglect to find geolocation of the prerequisites under segment 30(3) of the PC Abuse Act on the grounds that digital violations leave something many refer to as a computerized impression or computerized trail, IP address which is characterized as the geo area and exceptional gadget identifier corresponding to a specific wrongdoing or exchange or wrongdoing.", Said Ssemakadde.
In that capacity, Ssemakadde said , the geo area, of the previously mentioned necessities was a fundamental element of the offense to the extent that it relates to the regional locale of the court and it was a Ward truth which must be determined in the specifics of the offense.
He consequently requested that Court discharge his client quickly to stay away from additional infringement of his established freedoms.
In any case, the Indictment drove by State Lawyer Timothy Amerit was not ready to make a reaction. Amerit said he was holding brief for State Lawyer Jonathan Muwaganya who has not showed up in court and , he has now been surrendered to July fourth 2023 to answer.
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