The High Court in Kampala has dismissed the bail application by Senior Superintendent of Police Nixon Agasiirwe, accused of murdering prosecutor Joan Kagezi.
Agasiirwe had petitioned for mandatory bail under Article 23(6)(c) of the Constitution, claiming he had spent 184 days on remand.
However, Justice Isaac Muwata on Thursday ruled that the DPP filed the Indictment and Summary of Evidence on 16th December 2025, fulfilling the constitutional 180-day threshold intended to prevent indefinite pre-trial detention.
“The purpose of the 180-day threshold is to prevent the State from holding citizens indefinitely without formalizing the charge for trial,” Justice Muwata observed.
“By filing the Indictment and Summary of Evidence, the State has met its obligation, and the mandatory grounds for bail have been overtaken by the committal proceedings.”
While considering Agasiirwe’s character and antecedents, the court referenced a list of ongoing investigations, including multiple murder and serious crime cases.
“Although the Applicant has no prior convictions and remains presumed innocent, the sheer volume of active capital investigations suggests a pattern of alleged criminal conduct that the court cannot ignore.”
“Releasing the applicant while these files are active would jeopardize the State’s ability to conclude these investigations and may provide the applicant with the opportunity to interfere with evidence,” Justice Muwata said.
The judge weighed Agasiirwe’s constitutional right to liberty against the seriousness of the allegations and ongoing investigations:
“The failure to substantively explain the status of these active investigations, combined with the fact that the applicant has now been committed for trial, creates an unacceptably high risk that the interests of justice would be prejudiced by his release at this stage.”
He noted that Agasiirwe had not demonstrated exceptional circumstances warranting bail, and therefore dismissed the application.
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