EALS Sues Kenya, Uganda And EAC Over Renditions

Nairobi Star (Nairobi)

Ramadhan Rajab

10 June 2011

The East Africa Law Society has sued Kenyan and Ugandan government over rendition of Kenyan citizens to Uganda to face charges of related to last year’s bombing in Kampala. The East African secretary general is also a respondent in the case.

The Law Society body accused the two nations of breaching their constitution by failing to safeguard and protect its citizen’s individual’s liberties by Kenya handing over its citizens to Ugandan authorities without following extradition procedures.

In an application filed last week at the Arusha based East Africa Court of Justice, EALS pleaded the court to declare that the Kenyan government contravened its constitution on the extradition and therefore in contravention of the treaty that establishes the EAC and the African charter on human and people’s right.

They also want the court to declare criminal charges of terrorism, murder, and attempted murder declared illegal unsustainable in law and be discontinued.

“The manner in which the extraditions were done was casual and that’s why we moved to court and sued the attorney generals of the two countries for flouting the law.

We also sued the EAC secretary general for failing to safeguard the EAC treaty,” James Mwamu EALS vice president said.

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