High court of Uganda has this afternoon ruled that Gen David Tinyefuza also known as Sejusa is no longer a serving army officer of UPDF.

While giving her ruling, justice Margeret Oumo Oguli said that Sejusa, like any other army officer, is entitled to "constructive discharge" from the army since he no
longer receives a salary and other benefits and has also not been deployed by the UPDF for one and a half years now.

Oumo also added that since all the other people Sejusa served with in the army are all retired, and the fact that he has served for so long, then he deserved to be retired, adding: "He has not been a threat to security".

She said: "The state refusing to retire him is a glaring act of discrimination against him.”

Justice Ouma also substantiated her ruling by stating the fact that by taking away Sejesusa's guns, uniforms, not paying him a salary and allowances has made him to be in captivity.

The ruling was as a resulf of a petition lodged by Gen Sejusa ot High Court who prayed that it was illegal to be tried in a military court yet he was a civilian who had retired from the army.

This ruling means that other cases that Sejusa was facing as an army officer have been nullified, making him a free man.

Photo by Abubaker Lubowa.