All convicts appealed against the sentence except Stephen Lwanga.
They argued that the judge erred in law and fact when she convicted them on three charges without proof of all the essential ingredients of the offence beyond a reasonable doubt.
Achola pleaded not guilty and applied for bail through the Centenary Bank lawyer, Joshua Sserugendo. She presented her supervisor, Louis Ngabirano and her workmate, Rehema Kakembo at Centenary Bank as her sureties for bail application.
On December 19, 2017, General Katumba Wamala in a tweet making rounds on social media dared those who wanted to attack him as he responded to a threat by ex-MP Odonga Otto who had said that for punching Mityana Municipality MP Francis Zaake during the 'Togikwatako' fracas, they would go for Katumba and his family when the regime changes.
Eddie Mutwe was later given bail after spending some months on remand and was later re-arrested recently on December 30th 2020 from Kalangala District on allegations of illegal possession of ammunition and he has since then been in jail at Kitalya Government's Prison.
However, when Egonda Ntende asked why Lutaaya whose case was one of the six fixed for hearing was no show, the prison warders revealed that he is locked up in Moroto Prison which doesn't have video conferencing technology.
