The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mike Chibita blames Uganda Police for mishandling the murder probe of Joan Kagezi.
Kagezi was assassinated by unknown gunmen in Kiwatule a Kampala suburb.
While addressing journalists at Media Centre in Kampala on Friday, Chibita said police had followed a wrong track in the investigations thus giving the criminals space to cover their tracks.
Immediately after her death, a team of police officers led by the then Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura arrested more than 50 suspects who were later released after the DPP advised that there was no evidence linking them to the crime scene.
Chibita says it is this following of the wrong track in the investigations that messed up the case since the right tracks have since gone cold and covered.
Chibita however, revealed that there are still leads that can help trace the people behind the assassination like telephone call records, bullets and fingerprints all recovered from the scene of crime.
DPP’s office will hold a memorial lecture for Kagezi at Hotel Africana under the theme, “Combating International and Transnational Organised Crime; lessons learnt and best practices.”
The main speaker will be the United Kingdom Chief Crown Prosecutor Grace Onoruna.
