Mr Stanley Kisambira whose audio clip’s threatened to commit murder-suicide as to kill a judge and his bodyguard has again responded to the permanent secretary who had given him five days to defend himself.
However in his defence written by his lawyer from the Center for legal Aid, Mr Kisambira said he didn’t regret his statements and asked the judiciary PS Dr Pius Bigirimana to cease from further absurdity.
Meanwhile in a May 16 letter , Bigirimana accused Kisambira of misconduct saying he would have used the right means as provided for under the public service standing orders as a public servant other than running to social media to address his grievances.
“ inciting violence and threatening to cause an accident is unprofessional, criminal and punishable in the strongest terms. In addition, uttering false information that you are only paid Shs 200,000 contravenes section F-r of the public service standing orders.”
And as such Bigirimana asked Mr Stanley Kisambira in a letter to explain his act of gross misconduct within five days of receipt of this letter and failure to do this Bigirimana threatened to subject Kisambira to disciplinary measures including dismissal from judiciary.
However Kisambira’s lawyers in response said it was premature for Bigirimana who is also the judiciary’s accounting officer to convict him of gross misconduct.
According to Kisambira’s lawyers their client accepts no liability whatsoever for the contents or circulation of the audio clip at issue.
A private communication , it contains protected political opinion and does not reasonably imply what you allege as you rightly stated,our client did the right thing to express his dissatisfaction.” reads the letter.
The lawyers further implied that Kisambira enjoys what they described as absolute immunity under the law to freely express his dissatisfaction in a peaceful manner without fear of retaliation by his employer or the state.
However to support their responses the lawyers quoted several laws that they say Bigirimana as accounting officer of the judiciary should have looked upon before writing to Kisambira. They say the public service regulations on code of conduct further bars him from implementing any disciplinary procedure before the completion of proper investigations.