Uganda, Feb. 12 -- Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka has lashed out at a section of members of the Uganda Law Society (ULS) for planning to convene an extraordinary general meeting to discuss what they described as an attack on judicial independence by the Executive.

The lawyers, who called the meeting, were incensed by President Museveni's December 7 letter, directing Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo to intervene in the then looming sale of Muslim properties, including the land on which the national mosque at Old Kampala sits.

But the chief government legal adviser said the December 7 letter was from one principal to another and the lawyers should not get involved.

."Again, we have had a lot of excitement about a communication betwee...