The High Court has ordered Citibank to attach and remit UGX450 million from Daily Monitor’s bank account to an account in Stanbic Bank in favour of the Permanent Secretary/ Secretary to the Judiciary Pius Bigirimana. In January 2023, the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier High Court ruling that ordered the Nation Media Group-owned newspaper to pay Bigirimana, UGX450 million as compensatory damages for defaming him in a series of articles published on several dates between 2012 and 2015. Following the Court of Appeal ruling, the newspaper filed an application for a stay of execution and an interim stay of…
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