By Wycliff G;
Watch Ministries Pastor Joseph Kabuleta was last evening released on Police bond four days after his arrest. His lawyers had applied for a petition for habeas Corpus claiming that their client is being held unlawfully.
Police had earlier dispersed a group of his followers who had gathered near the Special Investigations Unit at Kireka demanding that their pastor be taken to court after the 48 hours elapsed.
However, the Director of Public Prosecutions’ file against Kabuleta is expected in a week’s time to see him fronted in courts of law for crime ‘Computer Misuse Act 1990’.
The Computer Misuse Act 1990 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, introduced partly in response to the decision in R v Gold & Schifreen (1988) 1 AC 1063. Critics of the bill complained that it was introduced hastily and was poorly thought out.
The intention, they said, was often difficult to prove, and that the bill inadequately differentiated “joyriding” hackers like Gold and Schifreen from serious computer criminals.
The Act has nonetheless become a model from which several other countries, including Canada and the Republic of Ireland, have drawn inspiration when subsequently drafting their own information security laws, as it is seen “as a robust and flexible piece of legislation in terms of dealing with cybercrime”. Several amendments have been passed to keep the Act up to date.
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