In the news this morning, Ugandans are the mourning the death of prominent Retired Justice of the Supreme Court Prof George Kanyeihamba a respected gem in the legal circles of Uganda and beyond boarders.<\/p>\n
Kanyeihamba has died from a hospital in Kampala where he had been admitted since early this month at the age of 86. He’s been in and out of hospital battling ill health for the last 8 years.<\/p>\n
He’s been a respected academic and legal scholar, he authored numerous books and papers on constitutional law and governance in Africa. He served as a cabinet minister, member of parliament and was chair of the legal committee of the Constituency Assembly which made the 1995 Constitution.<\/p>\n
He was appointed a member of the\u00a0Supreme Court of Uganda\u00a0in 1997 and retired in November 2009.\u00a0Previously, he served as minister of commerce, minister of justice, and attorney-general all in President Yoweri Museveni’s administration. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Warwick.<\/p>\n
In 2008, Warwick awarded him an honorary LLD. Kanyeihamba was one of the three supreme court justices who ruled that the re-election of President Museveni in 2006 was fraudulent enough to be nullified.<\/p>\n
He has since lost his post as judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and commentators believe that his stand in that election petition cost him his job.<\/p>\n
He has also been critical of the Government of Uganda when armed men invaded the premises of the High Court of Uganda to re-arrest treason suspects that had been released on bail by the court. The Constitutional Court has since ruled that the invasion of the court premises was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
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