Senior Principal State Attorney Joan Kagezi murdered

Ms kagezi was reportedly shot by two assailants who had been trailing her on a boda boda motorcycle. She had two of her children in the car from school heading back home. According to preliminary investigations, Ms Kagezi was shot dead at around 7:00pm while driving the judiciary car back to her home. 

 Ms Kagezi had been prosecuting a high profile case involving the July 2010 Kampala bomb suspects who targeted football fans watching the World Cup final at a restaurant and a rugby club in Kampala. Somalia’s al-Qaida-affiliated Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the attack, the group’s first outside Somalia.

Jane Kajuga, spokeswoman for the office of the director of public prosecution, confirmed the death of Kagezi, lead prosector in the bombing trial, and who also led the prosecution’s anti-terrorism and war crimes section.

“She has been shot dead ... but details are so far scanty,” Kajuga told the NTV Uganda station. Video