Former Police Special Operations commander Nixon Agasirwe has been charged and remanded over the murder of state prosecutor, Joan Kagezi.
Agasiirwe was charged with murder, contrary to sections 183 and 184 of the Penal Code.
He was however not allowed to take plea since he faces a capital offence only tried by the High Court.
State prosecutor, Joseph Kyomuhendo told court that investigations into the matter are still ongoing.
Consequently, Nakawa Chief Magistrate, Esther Nyadoi remanded Agasiirwe to Luzira Prison until July, 8
Kagezi was gunned down by unknown assailants in 2015 as she returned home in Kiwatule, a Kampala suburb.
At the time of her killing, Kagezi was prosecuting suspects involved in the infamous 2010 twin bombing case at the High Court of Kampala.
According to President Museveni, before her death, the late Kagezi apparently first got threats from some terrorists who sent her messages that if she did not stop prosecuting them seriously, they would harm her.
You compromise the CID, the DPP and the judiciary, then you are immune, you have impunity, you end up like some countries in South America where a person can be killed and nothing can be done. Why? Because the police were infiltrated by the criminals; the judiciary and the prosecution are infiltrated. Therefore, what the terrorists were trying to do here was exactly that,” the President asserted.
“I think some had been talked to and had prosecuted carefully but Joan refused. Unfortunately, we didn’t know about this, that is why she was killed. Now the killers, miscalculated and this is exactly what happened in the history of Uganda in the 1960s when we were telling the political leaders of that time that please let us talk about this, they didn’t listen and, in the end, we had to sort out issues like the way we did which was absolutely unnecessary. In this case the killers of Kagezi thought they were smart; I know the Chief Justice has told us to call them suspects. Now these suspects thought they were smart, but they miscalculated, we have them and many of those who sent them from Congo are dead, we have killed them,” the President said.
