Isaac Byaruhanga (L) after being arrested

According to the officers, Byaruhanga while at the checkpoint of the building, indicated that he was going to attend court. However, he reportedly proceeded up to the judge’s chambers on the first floor and told her bodyguard that he had an appointment with the lady justice. 

The VIP bodyguard inquired from the judge whether she indeed had an appointment with Byaruhanga, but the judge answered in the negative. When told about the judge’s position, Byaruhanga reportedly refused to leave the entrance of the chambers insisting that he must see the judge. It is at this point that the security personnel swung into action and arrested him citing criminal trespass. 

Upon interrogation, Byaruhanga allegedly said that there is a Munyankore judge at the international crimes division of the High court called Alice Komuhangi Khaukha, and he had come to ask for help from her. He was found with different types of medicines and medical documents from Mulago National Referral hospital. He had a deep healing cut on one of his knees.

Justice Komuhangi is one of the judges appointed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni last year and prior to her appointment, was the deputy Director of Public Prosecutions heading the directorate of inspections, quality assurance, research and training of officers at the office of the DPP.

She was before that appointment, the head of the Anti-Corruption court. But after being appointed as a judge, she’s at the helm of high profile cases before the International Crimes Division of the High court. 

Some of the cases include presiding over the pretrial of the case in which six people including Kawempe North MP Muhammad Ssegirinya and his Makindye West counterpart Allan Ssewanyana who are being charged with the machete killings of people in Masaka and Lwengo districts, the trial of Rwenzururu kingdom leader Omusinga Charles Wesley Mumbere and more than 200 others on terrorism, and the suspects implicated in the failed murder attempt of Gen Katumba Wamala and the subsequent murder of his daughter Brenda Nantongo and driver Sgt Haruna Kayondo.