After ten years of waiting and piecing together investigative information regarding the controversial assassination of a Ugandan prosecutor Joan Kagezi that was handling a case on the 2010 Al-Shabaab bombings in Kampala, Nakawa court has finally charged a former senior police officer for his role in the gruesome murder.
SSP Nixon Agasirwe former commandant of Police Special Operations Unit in Uganda has been (June 16) formally charged with the gruesome murder of Joan Kagezi, a former Senior Principal State Attorney assassinated in 2015.
During the court session, Agasirwe was not allowed to take a plea, as the Nakawa based Chief Magistrate’s Court does not have jurisdiction over murder cases.
“He has been remanded to Uganda’s largest prison, Luzira Upper Prison until July 8, 2025,” a local daily publication reported on Monday.
At the time of her murder, Kagezi had been heading the Directorate of Public Prosecution’s war crimes and anti-terrorism division.
Chief Magistrate Esther Nyandoi presiding over the session said Kagezi had been prosecuting high profile cases, including the 2010 Al-Shabaab bombings in Kampala.
On the fateful day, according to eyewitness accounts, the assassins opened fire on her while she was driving home from work.
Kagezi had stopped at a fruit stall on her way home and it was at that time that she was shot twice by gunmen on a motorcycle.
“We have never given up on this fight to bring perpetrators who murdered Joan Kagezi to court. We are very sure that the evidence we have will be enough to prosecute Agasirwe for the crime that we believe he committed,” the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution said.
