Uganda, Oct. 31 -- From the high walls of the much-feared Kitalya maximum penitentiary, Moses Kamuswaga has been intently following the raging debate over President Museveni's insistence that bail should be deprived of suspects accused of capital offenses.

Kamuswaga, who on the face of it has very sturdy political views, couldn't help but have a say on the issue that if President Museveni has his way it could radically alter Uganda's criminal justice system from the way we know it.

Journalists, lawyers, politicians, Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo, inter- alia, have weighed in on the bail debate and even now suits have been filed, but Kamuswaga insists they are missing the bigger picture.

Mr Museveni has rationalised his desire to amen...