Former Deputy RCC for Kampala Herbert Anderson Burora has once again been remanded by the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate Court to Luzira.
Burora faces charges of sharing information likely to ridicule, degrade, and promote hostility against the Speaker, and sharing malicious information against her.
He was picked up on July 01, 2024 by plain-clothed men from his residence in Ntinda and held in several police stations before winding up at Central Police Station, Kampala. Burora was then presented to the Buganda Road Court and remanded to Luzira.
On Tuesday, the defense lawyers argued that the accused does not have a case to answer since the alleged crime cannot be directly linked to him. The presiding chief magistrate remanded him until today for him to make a judgment on these objections.
Burora is expected back in court on 19th July.
Lwemiyaga County MP, decrying Anita Among’s behavior implored her to leave politics. “I have seen many powerful people, but this is the first time I am seeing the speaker of parliament causing two people to be detained at Luzira Prison because they spoke or did not appreciate something.”
“If you do not want to be criticized, stay in your house, don’t come to politics. In politics you tolerate caution, advice, or reprimand!”
Burora rose from the streets to join the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party. But even in the ruling government, he was accustomed to incessant activism against corruption.
Long before he became the ruling party’s foremost cadre in Nakawa and Rubaga, Burora led a crusade against alleged corruption by the then Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Pius Bigirimana.
He later joined the Jobless Brotherhood, a largely opposition-leaning outfit to fight corruption in parliament and they protested using the infamous colored pigs that they dropped at parliament, sometimes dropping only their severed heads.
