Tag Archives: Kagezi

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has informed the Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court that four suspects accused of murdering Senior Principal State Attorney Joan Kagezi Namazzi visited a Kayunga based witch doctor so as to perform rituals to  evade arrest and also to …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Criminal Investigations Department of police has submitted its case file on the investigation into the murder of the late State Attorney Joan Namazzi Kagezi to the Director of Public Prosecutions, Jane Frances Abodo Abodo for review, the Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court heard …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Nakawa Chief Magistrate’s Court has remanded two convicts and two prisoners, including a charcoal burner for terrorism and the murder of former Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, Joan Namazzi Kagezi. The accused include Daniel Kisekka Kiwanuka, a peasant farmer and charcoal burner residing …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has tasked the Attorney General to pursue the killers of former prosecutor Joan Namazzi Kagezi abroad so that they can be brought to book. Kagezi was shot dead on March  30th 2015 in Kiwatule, a Kampala Suburb on her way home. …

INTERVIEW: Justice Mike Chibita is the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). He spoke to Ian Katusiime on July 14 about the prosecutors strike and other issues.  In October, you are making four years in office, what would you cite as your three major achievements? Number one, we decentralised and created …

Police officers suspects, main investigator was sidelined by Kayihura Grace Akullo, the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) faces the toughest assignment of her career; finding the masterminds of the worst murder to rock Uganda Police. As head of the Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Directorate (CIID), Akullo has been charged …

The March 17 killing of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP), Andrew Felix Kaweesi, one of the topmost officers of the force is the latest case to put the government and specifically police on the spot. By striking successfully again, the assailants are proving that they have capacity to snatch …

VIDEO: Players in the motor cycle (Boda Boda) Industry have distanced themselves from the spate of murders linked to gunmen who disguise as riders. The leadership says whoever is responsible for such gruesome killings is doing it in their individual capacity because they are not riders. This comes a day after …

By Haggai Matsiko A behind the scenes look at what could be behind them 7:20 PM, March 30: A vehicle pulls up at a roadside fruit stall in Kiwatule, a fast growing suburb of Kampala city along the Kisaasi-Najjera Road. The fruit stall is near a tree shade, in front …

By Agather Atuhaire When Joan Kagezi, 47, the Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions at the war crimes division of the High Court, was on March.30 gunned down in front of some of her four kids, many could not hold back tears. It was her boss, Mike Chibita, the DPP, who …