Mityana Municipality legislator Francis Zaake has Monday been taken to Mityana Court to face charges disobedience of law orders and negligent acts which would likely spread the Coronavirus infection.
Zaake after his arrest last week was detained at Kireka SIU facility but later fell sick and has since been admitted at Police hospital in Naguru.
But Court couldn’t allow Zaake to take plea since it found him unfit.
The judiciary has since released a brief statement explaining that, “the Mityana Chief Magistrate Court earlier today declined to formally charge the area MP, Francis Zaake, after he was taken to the Court on a stretcher and visibly ill. The Court has ordered the Police to first take the MP to a proper medical facility for treatment.”
The MP was distributing at least 2kgs of rice, and sugar to selected households in Buswabulongo and Kiwawu villages in Mityana Municipality; outside the guidelines and new protocols by the National Task Force; a national fundraising and food distribution Task Force, that is overseeing all forms of support to vulnerable families facing hunger or struggling to afford food.
The NTF came up with additional protocols to facilitate the donation of quality food items, fit for human consumption, by having it certified by the UNBS and also ensure it is distributed in an orderly manner by the food distribution teams, which are screened to further reduce the risk of spreading the virus to vulnerable families benefiting from the food donations.
The new protocols arose following a case of donated food that was found to be unfit for human consumption