{"id":38519,"date":"2022-10-10T20:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse"},"modified":"2022-10-10T20:40:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:40:46","slug":"sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse","title":{"rendered":"Sipapa gets new lawyers, complains of rights abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Socialite Charles Olimu alias Sipapa has hired new lawyers to defend him and his girlfriend against accusations of aggravated robbery.<\/p>\n<p>On September 26, Olimu and Shamira Rukia Nakiyemba\u2019s lawyers of Elgon Advocates quit the case over his failure to pay them.<\/p>\n<p>The duo on Monday appeared before Ms Esther Adikini, a Grade One Magistrate for further mention of their case of aggravated robbery of $429, 000 (about Shs1.6 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Through their lawyers of Wameli &amp; Co. Advocates who indicated that they received instructions to represent the duo last Thursday, told the court that they intend to seek leave of court to file an application for infringement of their rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was an infringement of liberty to my client\u2019s personal life and in due course of proceedings, we shall file an application. Mr Olimu was arrested and kept at Kireka for over three days while his breastfeeding wife was in custody for over a week before being presented in court,\u201d Mr Geofrey Turyamusiima the accused\u2019s lawyer submitted.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Turyamusiia further told the court that the case was coming up for mention for the third time in court, however, the state is not clear on when to complete the investigations thus seeking for expedite investigations.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court heard that investigations in their case are still ongoing thus the Magistrate adjourned the matter to November 10 for mention.<\/p>\n<p>The two were charged on September 9 with six counts of aggravated robberies which were allegedly committed in August this year.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution alleges that Olimu, a 33-year-old businessman dealing in gold, cars and music promotion, together with his 23-year-old wife, a designer and others still at large on the night of August 29, 2022, at Bunga Kawuku, Makindye Division robbed a one Jacob Arok Mul and Mary Ateng of $429, 000, mobile phones, TV set, an apple MacBook and immediately before or after using a substance on their victims which rendered them unconscious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Socialite Charles Olimu alias Sipapa has hired new lawyers to defend him and his girlfriend against accusations of aggravated robbery. On September 26, Olimu and Shamira Rukia Nakiyemba\u2019s lawyers of Elgon Advocates quit the case over his failure to pay them. The duo on Monday appeared before Ms Esther Adikini, a Grade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-38519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sipapa gets new lawyers, complains of rights abuse - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Socialite Charles Olimu alias Sipapa has hired new lawyers to defend him and his girlfriend against accusations of aggra ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sipapa gets new lawyers, complains of rights abuse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Socialite Charles Olimu alias Sipapa has hired new lawyers to defend him and his girlfriend against accusations of aggra ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-10T20:14:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-10T20:40:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_25-634483351f015.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sipapa gets new lawyers, complains of rights abuse\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-10T20:14:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-10T20:40:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse\"},\"wordCount\":334,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_25-634483351f015.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sipapa-gets-new-lawyers-complains-of-rights-abuse\",\"name\":\"Sipapa gets new lawyers, complains of rights abuse - 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