Magistrate succumbs to Covid 19

The Uganda judiciary is in mourning after it lost one of its own, Kabale Grade One Magistrate Grace Ssemaganda to Covid 19 on Sunday.

According to Daily Monitor, a source in the judiciary said the 45-year-old judicial officer had Covid-19 complications.

“He was recently feeling weak and he treated the condition as a normal illness until his relatives took him to the hospital where it was discovered he had the virus. The situation got worse and he died this morning (yesterday),”  the source said.

The Judiciary confirmed his death. “The Judiciary regrets to announce the sudden death of His Worship Grace Ssemaganda, Magistrate Grade One Kabale. He passed on this morning at the Masaka Hospital after a short illness,” Mr Solomon Muyita, the principal communications officer, said.

Ssemaganda joined the Bench in 2014 after being appointed a grade one magistrate.

Excerpts from Daily Monitor