High Court has issued an order to the military to produce Colonel Atwooki Ndahura Birakurataki in Court dead or alive.
The Judge Musa Ssekaana made the directive following a petition by Ndahura’s wife Sarah Ndahura through the family Ochieng Associated Advocates.
She filed a Habeas Corpus application describing her husband’s arrest as illegal.
The arrest was conducted by UPDF Major General Gen Sam Okiding, the commandant UPDF Artillery Masindi Barracks on June 11 from Peace Corner Motel in Masindi Town.
Col Ndahura is among the close allies of former IGP Kale Kayihura who are detained at Makindye Barracks following his arrest.
Ndahura served as head of Crime Intelligence a parallel unit of Criminal Intelligence Directorate (CID) created by Kayihura.
The Habeas Corpus application is made in court seeking a person under detention to be brought before a judge or magistrate especially to secure that person’s release unless lawful grounds are shown to justify his or her detention.
The respondents in this case include the Attorney General, the head of Military Intelligence Brig. Abel Kandiho, the Inspector General of Police John Martins Okoth-Ochola and and the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen. David Muhoozi.
Sarah avers that Mr Ndahura is being held incommunicado and has not been produced in any court or charged in any competent court or given access to his family members, lawyers and doctors.
“I am advised by my lawyers whose advice I verily believe to be true that this court has powers to grant the reliefs sought and also to summon the IGP, CMI and CDF to explain the whereabouts of Lt Col Ndahura,” reads the affidavit.
