Former Police Special Operations Unit commander at the rank of Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Nixon Agasirwe, has been charged with the murder of former Assistant Director of Public Prosecution, Ms Joan Kagezi Namazzi, and remanded to Luzira Upper Prison.
Agasiirwe, once a prominent figure in Uganda’s law enforcement circles, appeared before the Chief Magistrate’s Court on Monday, June 16, where he was read the charges but was not allowed to take plea, as the court lacks jurisdiction over capital offences such as murder. He will remain on remand until July 8, 2025.
His arrest last month followed a fresh breakthrough in the decade-old case, after a key prosecution witness, Daniel Kiwanuka Kisekka, a UPDF deserter, testified on May 21, 2025, before the International Crimes Division of the High Court, implicating Agasiirwe as the mastermind behind the assassination.
Kagezi was shot dead on March 30, 2015, at around 7:00 pm by gunmen riding a boda boda who trailed her vehicle and opened fire at Kiwatule, a Kampala suburb, as she drove back home.
At the time, Kagezi was leading the prosecution in the terrorism case against the suspects in the July 2010 Kampala bombings.
Her killing sparked national and international outrage and was widely viewed as a direct attack on Uganda’s justice system. Investigators long suspected a coordinated plot by high-level individuals, but no major arrests had been made until this year.
Agasiirwe is now among the highest-ranking security officers to be linked directly to the assassination.
