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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni commended the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) for taking the lead in remembering the late State Prosecutor, Joan Kagezi.
“When you organise these annual lectures in memory of Joan, you are creating a culture of gratitude to the people who serve and sacrifice. It is not good for the country to have a culture of forgetting, somebody has died, you forget about him or her, so it’s very good that you organise these annual lectures,” he said.
The President made the remarks today during the 7th Joan Kagezi Memorial Lecture at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds.
The lecture serves as a platform to honour the life and work of the late Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, Kagezi who was shot dead in her vehicle in the presence of her children on the evening of March 30, 2015, in Kiwatule, a Kampala City suburb.
According to President Museveni, before her death, the late Kagezi first got threats from some terrorists who sent her messages that if she did not stop prosecuting them seriously, they would harm her.
