Court Yet to Drop Charges against Ssegirinya Due to Missing Death Certificate

Buganda Road Chief Magistrates court is still waiting for the Criminal Investigations Department of police  ( CID)  to present the  death certificate of the Kawempe North Member of Parliament Muhammad Ssegirinya.

The cerificate is required to prove his death in order for court to  drop incitiment to violence charges against him.

State prosecutor Ivan Kyazze while appearing before Chief Magistrate Ronald Kayizzi asked for an adjournment to allow the CID to formally close the charge file and get a death certificate. 

CID was investigating the incitiment to violence case that stemmed from Ssegirinya’s Facebook Post 

Accordingly, Kayizzi adjourned the case to April 11th 2025.

Ssegirinya also known as Mr Updates died on 8th/ January 2025 and at the time of his demise he was being accused of having posted a statement on his Facebook page  calculated to incite the public to participate in violence against a section or group of people.

The Prosecution quotes Ssegirinya as having posted, “I am warning those who are trying to assassinate Hon Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu that what will happen will be forty times worse than the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.” It is estimated that one million people were slaughtered in ethnic cleansing in 100 days during the genocide in question.

The late Ssegirinya died on January 9th, 2025, at Lubaga Hospital after a legacy born out of relentless legal battles that saw him spend almost his entire career as an MP in Luzira and Kigo prisons. He was later buried in Masaka on January 12th, 2025, in a burial ceremony that was widely broadcast on almost all televisions and reported by various print and media houses.