High Court Okays Dr. Oledo Back to Office as UMA President
KAMPALA, UGANDA - The high court of Uganda at kampala through Magistrate Hon. Justice Ssekaana Musa has issued a temporary injunction against some members the Uganda Medical Association who on 6th December took a resolution to court trying to separate Dr. Oledo with his chair as the UMA president.
This followed Oledo's thankful acts when he expressed himself surpringly by kneeling down with a few doctors as a sign of respect before HE. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for enhancing the salaries of doctors in Uganda and improving their welfares.
Oledo has on Thursday together with his legal officer informed journalists at Piato restaurant in kampala that he is still the president of the Ugandan Medical Association as per the law.
" I was voted for UMA presidency in broad daylight without hidding my political affiliations as an NRM candidate, I led a team of doctors in a peaceful strike while expressing to government about doctor's poor welfare and salaries and we knelt before police but none came out to say I knelt down however having advocated for the best of doctors in Uganda, this is a form of payment am receiving by trashing me because of being NRM and kneeling down to thank the person who increased doctor's salaries," it is impossible Oledo said.
He included, using a Luganda word "Kawuukumi" meaning bean weavles, that there is just a few opposition who he termed as Kawuukumi, trying to dismantle the success and progress of the Uganda Medical Association and urged all doctors to team up by working together to isolate the bean weavles since doctors have witnessed how possible it is for doctors profession in Uganda to shine under the leadership the current government.
"I have called my secretary and she is waiting for me outside the door with my office keys therefore soon as I set off from here, I have to occupy my office because I have alot of work to offer for doctors in Uganda," Oledo stressed.
Council Elvis Ssemuyaba , Oledo's legal officer from the law firm Unicas advocates described that UMA called for NGC meeting under which they passed resolutions to call for extra general assembly within 21 days to investigate the conduct of Dr. Oledo having knelt before the fountain of honour and also appointed the vice president as the acting president of Uganda Medical Association, however the decision arrived at by UMA were improper , illegal and arrived at through bias because Dr. Oledo was not given a fair hearing.
He explained that this therefore led to the filing of an application for judicial review in court that the decisions needed to be reviewed because of being illegal and not giving a fair hearing to one party.
" We served UMA on Friday last week that Dr. Oledo has gone to court to seek for justice in regard to the made decisions by UMA of impeaching and suspending Dr. Oledo from the UMA membership for a certain number of years.
This has been granted by court through Justice Ssekaana Musa temporarily restraining the UMA and it's employees from implementing its initial resolutions until the main application is disposed off by court, therefore court does not consider the UMA made decisions of suspending Dr.Oledo, he is still the president of Uganda Medical Association until his term ends, council Ssemuyaba said.
