By AFAYO SHADRACH BETHEL

The Court of Appeal has advised controversial lawyer Male Mabirizi to drop his pride and seek forgiveness from Justice Musa Ssekaana who sent him to Luzira to serve 18 months imprisonment for contempt of court.

High Court’s Justice Ssekaana earlier this year ordered the arrest of Mabirizi to serve an 18month jail term over his continued contemptuous social media posts against the judge and the judiciary at large.

Having been jailed, Mabirizi filed applications to the Court of Appeal seeking to have him released from prison.

However, a panel of three justices of the Court of Appeal including Muzamiru Mutangula Kibeedi, Irene Mulyagonja and Eva Luswata dismissed the applications but also advised Mabirizi to drop his pride and apologise to Justice Ssekaana but also seek pardon.