Presidential Directives & the Force of Law
Challenges and Ambiguities with the Public Health Legal Instruments
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There are evident challenges and ambiguities between the presidential Directives and the structure of the Health Instruments. Some of the challenges have been depicted in the form of premature enforcement of the Presidential Directives before they have been legislated into respective legal instruments as a requirement of the law.
Many times, arrests and detentions of innocent Ugandans by the security personnel have been conducted before the presidential Directive have been given the requisite legal force.
This certainly tantamount to violation of rule of law. It should be noted that the Presidential Directive do not have the force of law and therefore, to be able to enforce them with the observance of rule of law respective legal instruments have got to be enacted first.