Kampala. President Yoweri Museveni has tasked the attorney general to pursue the alleged killers of former state prosecutor Joan Namazzi Kagezi, who he says are triumphantly living abroad.
Kagezi was shot dead on March 30, 2015, in Kiwatule, a Kampala suburb on her way home. At the time of her death, she was the lead prosecutor in the case where 15 suspects were being tried for the 2010 bombing by al-Shabaab which claimed more than 70 people in Lugogo and Ethiopian Village in Kabalagala.
Speaking at the 5th Memorial Lecture of Kagezi on Tuesday in Kampala, Museveni said that her killers are known to the government but he is surprised that seven years down the road, they have not been prosecuted anywhere.
Museveni said he wonders why the attorney general has not been able to extradite them to Uganda to face justice. The seemingly puzzled Museveni tasked the director of public prosecutions (DPP) Jane Frances Abodo after trying to spot the attorney general in vain to explain why the killers who are in a country he didn’t mention, have not been either brought to Uganda or prosecuted from where they are.
In response, Abodo said there is a need to have a treaty with the said country alleged to be harbouring Kagezi’s killers adding that they disagree with death penalties which are in the laws of Uganda. Feeling dissatisfied with Abodo’s response, Museveni called the deputy head of the International Crimes Division of the High court justice Susan Okalany who also informed him that what Abodo had stated was the correct position in law.
