Bachelor of Laws (LLB) students at the Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU)-Kampala Campus engaged Professor George W Kanyeihamba in a Constitutional Law Dialogue.
Speaking in an interview with Campus Bee, IUIU Kampala Campus Law Students Society President Ssenyonga Julius says the dialogue was important to the law students.
Ssenyonga told Campus Bee that through the dialogue , the students learnt how the Uganda constitution was drafted.
“Students learnt how the the Constitution of 1995 was progamated through the Constitution Assembly. He also donated his books like evolution of constitutionalism in Uganda and challenging the presidential elections .( Article 104b of the Constitution),” Ssenyonga told Campus Bee.
Professor Kanyeihamba, a former Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, former Attorney General, and Retired Justice of the Supreme Court in Uganda shed more light on land laws, human rights laws that correspond with international charters, integrity, conscience, and ethics in the legal profession.
The Professor of Law (Retired) at Makerere University and Former Justice of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights told the students to always be guided by the supreme laws of the land which is the Constitution.
Professor Kanyeihamba who was part of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 1995 Constitution advised the students to always be guided by their conscience.
The moderator of the dialogue was Bachelor of Laws (LLB 4) student Joel Jerry Walyono who is the outgoing Guild Prime Minister and Attorney General of IUIU Kampala Campus Law Students Society.
The constitutional law dialogue was held under the theme “Constitutional Practice and Rule of Law in Uganda.”
