COURTS are there for a very important reason – they maintain law and order, send criminals to jail, sort out money issues and try to ensure the world is a safer and more civilised place. But you have to feel for the judges and magistrates who preside over these institutions of justice and fairness: sometimes the cases that land before them are just plain curious.
Take a recent issue that ended up in a magistrate’s court in Kampala, Uganda. The matter: an aggrieved member of a WhatsApp group who’d been booted from the platform.
Herbert Baitwababo had been kicked out after questioning administrator Allan Asinguza’s handling of funds and the management of a welfare organisation’s WhatsApp
