The Chief Magistrate at Nakawa has committed SSP Agasirwe Nixon Karuhanga and Ssemujju Adbul Noor alias Minaana to High Court for trial after the prosecution confirmed the completion of investigation against the pair.
Mr. Richard Bilivumbuka, the Chief State Attorney prosecuting the pair presented the committal bundles to court including the indictment with details of the charges being levied against them.
The details of the charges rotate around the 30th March 2015 murder of the then Assistant DPP Joan Namazi Kagezi who was fatefully gunned down on a vegetable kiosk in Kiwanuka, a Kampala suburb on her way home.
After the first round of investigations, a number of suspects were apprehended and charged with the murder. Some of the arrested suspects undertook a plea bargain with the prosecution and were charged lightly in exchange of providing more information to the prosecution in regard to the entire planning and execution of the murder.
Particularly, a one Kisekka Daniel pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment. He went ahead and told prosecution that him together with 3 others were recruited, paid and supervised by SSP Nickson Agasirwe and his companion Minaana to execute the killing of Joan Kagezi.
It is based on this confession and on other evidence gathered by the prosecution in various ways that Nickson and Minaana were arrested and arraigned before the Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court to answer these allegations.
Because offenses are capital in nature and triable only by the high court, the pair was remanded to Luzira prison from where they have appeared a number of times for various reasons like bail applications, pending their committal to the High Court which has the jurisdiction to try their matter.
Upon conclusion of investigations, the prosecution is now comfortable that it has gathered enough evidence sufficient to secure convictions for the pair and Mr Bilivumbuka has as such asked court to commit the pair to the nearest High Court for their trial to begin in earnest.
Court has indeed committed the pair, and as soon as the next High Court criminal session commences, prosecution can begin to lead evidence that ties the pair the fateful murder of Joan Namazi Kagezi.
The pair will join the first group that was arrested and is still under trial at high court, and prosecution contends that there are several other participants in this murder that are still at large.