KAMPALA-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: President Yoweri Museveni’s in-law, Odrek Rwabwoogo has invite former presidential spokesperson, Tamale Mirundi for talks to resolve the damaging comments he is engaged in body organ trade.
‘’Please contact us as soon as possible to resolve this matter. You need to caution yourselves, all your on-air employees to be alert to these concerns,” Rwabwoogo’s lawyers of Abbas Advocates wrote in a April 22, 2022 letter.
But in the same letter marked intention to sue, the lawyers threatened to sue over ‘flawed and biased programs’ which since 2015 have portrayed Rwabwoogo as a human body organ dealer.
“Yourselves, your stations have continuously made false spoken and written statements live on radios and television, insinuated with conclusions that our client is a trader in human body parts, consequently damaging his reputation,’ the advocates wrote.
The lawyers said they intend to ‘clean’ the reputation of Rwabwoogo by adducing evidence he is not engaged in human body organ trade. ”We shall prove that yourselves and businesses acted with actual malice or recklessness for whether the statements that were made were true of false,” the advocates said.
And they demanded Shs.5bn in compensation to Rwabwoogo and Shs.50m for their legal fees.
Tamale Mirundi has repeatedly alleged that a group, known as fellowship is engaged in human body trade and that through their companies, they have exported Ugandans girls to Arab nations where at least 4,000 have been killed.
Mirundi has however not produced evidence to back his claims. But in non-verified audios, which Mirundi purports they belong Rwabwoogo, voices have at times discussed prices of individual body organs. Mirundi has also claimed that Mr. Rwabwoogo is being tried in The Hague for his involvement in human trafficking. Newsday has not been able to verify this claim.
Last weekend, Mirundi attended Lt. Gen Muhoozi’s birthday party at State House Entebe and Lugogo. He took photographs with one sworn enemy Andrew Mwenda who he has at times connected to human trafficking, but without any tangible evidence.
Incompetent
Mr Lwetutte Stephen a human rights lawyer based in the UK says Mr Rwaboogo’s letter before claim to various bloggers and a media house is rather astonishing in its scale and incompetent in its scope in sofar as the lack of particularisation of his claims is concerned.
“It will take an awful lot more than is stated in this letter to launch a successful claim and the stated legal costs are really laughable. I can see the respondents either querying it and demanding more details or ignoring it outright, and inviting him to bringing it on!”Lwetutte says.
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