His lawyer Samuel Wanda has indicated that Kakwenza will fly from Kigali International Airport to another African country where he will spend three days and then fly to Europe. Wanda says that Kakewenza fled to seek treatment abroad after he failed to get his passport back.
On Monday this week, Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s court rejected Kakwenza’s request to have his passport returned to him to enable him to seek treatment abroad and also attend an event in Germany where he was to be recognized as an honorary member of Pen International.
Chief magistrate Dr Douglas Singiza said that the award which Kakwenza wanted to go and pick from Germany as the reason to get back his passport can be presented to him online. He also advised him to seek treatment from within the country. In a message via his Facebook account, Kakwenza called Singiza a pigheaded disgraced magistrate who values his passport more than his life and his non-derograble rights and an enabler of outlawlessness.Â
Kakwenza was arrested on December 28, 2021, from his home in Kisaasi, a Kampala suburb, and held incommunicado until January 11, 2022, when he was produced in court on two cases of offensive communication.
According to the prosecutors, Kakwenza used his Twitter handle, @KakwenzaRukira to post a series of tweets about President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his son Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba with no purpose of legitimate communication. In one of the tweets, Kakwenza refers to Museveni as an election thief and in another, he calls Muhoozi overweight and intellectually bankrupt.
The prosecutors argue that the communication was willfully and repeatedly used to disturb the peace of the president. He denied the charges.
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