Uganda, March 3 -- With Uganda Law Society (ULS) leadership seemingly not interested in challenging the powers that be, a group of lawyers have taken it upon themselves to do so.

Lawyers Peter Walubiri, Phillip Karugaba, Mohmed Mbabazi, Eron Kiiza, Isaac Ssemakadde, Jude Byamukama, and Sarah Kasande, inter-alia, have made it a point to issue statements when they conclude that the Executive is inferring with judicial independence.

Their efforts started when at the end of last year President Museveni wrote a letter asking Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo to intervene in the court case in which Muslim property, including the revered Gaddafi national mosque, was bound to be sold.

"I, therefore, request you to review this matter yourself a...