The Court president over by Grade I Magistrate Elias Abdallah Keiza issued the warrant of arrest on Friday after Ssempijja failed to respond to criminal summons previously issued against him.
Last month, the State Minister for Ethics and Integrity in the Office of President, Rose Lilly Akello, together with the interagency Anticorruption bodies, conducted an accountability baraza in Masaka, where they arrested a number of technical staff, including heads of departments, who are named in various corruption tendencies.
The petitioners who include Juliet Nakabuye Kakande, the Masaka City Woman MP, Nyendo-Mukungwe and Kimanya-Kabonera divisions Chairpersons, and other lower council leaders.
Police led by Masaka City Police Commander Moses Nanoka intervened after leaders of Masaka United Taxi Operators and Drivers Cooperative Society engaged in bitter clashes with their counterparts plying the Kampala-Kyotera and Kampala-Mbarara routes, accusing them of setting up illegal roadside stages.
