Obusinga bwa Rwenzururu King Charles Wesley Mumbere has filed a fresh bail application before Jinja High Court.
Mumbere cites a Constitutional right, advanced age of 64 years and ill-health as some of the exceptional circumstances upon which court should base it’s lenience to grant him bail.
On January 13, Jinja Court released Mumbere on non cash bail of shs 100m but was again re-arrested by Police and new charges slapped against him.
Last week on he was remanded back to Luzira prison after he was arraigned before the Jinja Magistrates court and charged with new counts including terrorism, murder and attempted murder.
Mumbere’s lawyers Alaka and company Advocates however maintain that the king’s first bail granted to him on 13th January 2017 still stands despite his immediate re-arrest.
Mumbere was freshly charged with twenty others for the offenses that they are said to have committed between the months of July and November last 2016 at Bukara Village, Kabonero subcounty, and at Nyabutsi villiage, Karangura subcounty in Kabalore district.