The legal team, led by Kenyan senior counsel Martha Karua and Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, also wants the Attorney General and the Commissioner of Prisons to be summoned to explain the legal basis for keeping Besigye and Lutale in prison despite the ruling that annulled military court proceedings against civilians.
Starting immediately, the deep relief in the nation will be followed by debate on whether the military will comply with the highest legal decision in the land and free not only Dr Besigye and his associate Obeid Lutale but also their lawyer Eron Kiiza, who was jailed for nine month by the military court.
A seven-judge bench, led by Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo, is set to deliver a landmark ruling in the case of former Nakawa MP Michael Kabaziguruka. Kabaziguruka successfully challenged his terrorism trial by the military court in 2022, prompting an appeal by the Attorney General to the Supreme Court.