UGANDAN HARVARD UNIVERSITY STUDENT SUES MUSEVENI OVER BLOCKED TWITTER

By our reporter
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In Kampala
A student of Harvard University in the United States of America (USA) has sued Ugandan President Yoweri kaguta Museveni for blocking him on his Twitter handle.
The President was sued alongside government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo and the polices Chief Political Commissar, Asan Kasingye, whom he accused of also blocking him from accessing their Twitter handles.
In his law suit filed before the High Court in Kampala yesterday, Hillary Innocent Seguya Taylr states that he is a Ugandan citizen pursuing a Masters degree in International Relations.
He stated that for the purposes of his application, he appointed his lawyer Male Mabirizi since he is not in the country.
Seguya contended that the President, government spokesperson and the polices chief political commissar use their respective Twitter handles as public fora to disseminate information relating to the activities of their public offices in their official capacities and to get feedback from citizens.
Seguya explained that as a citizen who is living abroad, he is only capable of getting information relating to his countrys governance and to communicate to the respective officers including the Fountain of Honour through social media.
That before being blocked, I used the same Twitter social media platform handles to communicate my views, dismays and suggestions to the respective officers, Mr Seguya states.
He added “The effect of blocking me from the respective Twitter accounts is that I am now not capable of following and viewing the Tweets on their respective Twitter social media platform handles and hence not capable of contacting, replying, liking, tagging, retweeting and knowing the public information thereon or commenting on the same.”
He asserted that blocking of his Twitter handle, @HillaryTaylorVI, from accessing the respective three handles on July 20, 30 and August 8, was done without giving him notice.
He is now seeking an order to quash the decision of the three officials, and general damages of the inconvenience caused.

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