Ugandans tend to get wary of lawyer Male Mabirizi’s relentless pursuit of justice in courts of law. We are a fatalist society and get impatient when someone insists on pursuing something that is hard to get – like justice – and we often ask of him, “Now what is he dying for?”
Many lawyers actually dislike Mabirizi, who hogs the limelight when he sues a public figure — which is all the time — and sneer that “the fellow isn’t even an enrolled advocate of the High Court.” Apparently, Mabirizi forewent the bar course, despite having been an A student at law school, and it is suspected he did so to avoid being under regulation and control, for practising lawyers must get and annually renew a practising certificate. So he sues as a concerned citizen.
