Kampala -High Court Judge Musa Sekaana has ordered for the immediate arrest of city lawyer Hassan Male Mabirizi to be committed to prison for 18 months for his continuous attack on judicial officers.
This is after justice Sekaana finds Mabirizi in contempt of court for the second time despite an earlier warning to him to desist abusing and undermining judges.
Sekaana and Mabirizi have had a face-off since 2019 when the later took to his official Twitter and Facebook Accounts to castigate the judge to recuse himself from a number of cases he has filing.
Mabirizi would go on to label Sekaana as being incompetent, biased and not fit to be a judge.
However, last month, Sekaana fined Mabirizi to a tune of 300 million shillings after finding him in contempt of court when he attacked his fellow judge Phillip Odoki for dismissing a case in relation to Capital Market Authorities and MTN.
Sekaana then issued an order gaging Mabirizi not to attack judicial officers.
However instead of appearing before Justice Sekaana to explain why he should not pay the 300 million shillings or be committed to civil prison as per the Court summons, Mabirizi instead took on his twitter handle and Facebook page to abuse judge Sekaana of being incompetent and biased.
The State Attorney Patricia Muteesi on Tuesday moved court to have Mabirizi arrested and be committed to prison for this contemptuous behaviour; something judge Sekaana has agreed to and issued an arrest warrant police to arrest Mabirizi on sight.
Mabirizi has not been present in court but had again sent his Lawyer Noel Nuwe.
In November 2020, the Supreme Court sentenced a one Ivan Samuel Ssabadduka to 3 years imprisonment for insulting them and referring to them as counsel of fools.
