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The bail hearing for 38 National Unity Platform supporters arrested in Mbarara has been postponed for the sixth time, prolonging their detention and frustrating relatives who say the process is unnecessarily slow.
Mbarara Grade One Magistrate, His Worship Alex Buguma, representing Chief Magistrate Andrew Kabombo, adjourned the case to Thursday, December 11, 2025.
His Worship Buguma said the chief magistrate had traveled to Kampala on official duties and could not hear a case allocated solely to him. Defense lawyers, led by Counsel Allan Musasire, asked the court to return the original national identity cards of the suspects’ sureties, which had been submitted as part of the bail process. END