The High Court in Kampala has issued an arrest warrant for the former aspirant for Nakawa West Constituency Member of Parliament seat, Mukesh Shukla aka Shumuk, over failure to pay a court fine of Shs73 million.
Mukesh filed a petition contesting NUP’s Joel Ssenyonyi’s victory but he lost both cases at Nakawa High Court and Court of Appeal.
On Wednesday, the high court in Kampala issued a warrant of arrest ordering the arrest of Shukla Mukesh if he does not pay the decree-holder costs of the election petition and the applications amounting to Shs73,050,000.
The warrant was issued by the Civil Division Registrar, Jamson Karemani, following an application by Ssenyonyi.
In March this year, the Court of Appeal declared Ssenyonyi the duly elected Nakawa West MP after throwing out a petition by Mukesh Shukla challenging the former’s nomination and irregularities in the 2021 elections.