Derrick Bazekuketta has once again moved mountains (like he did at the Makerere Law School barely two years ago) by emerging the overall best Bar Course student at LDC. Amiable Baze (as pals fondly call him) was in a lot of 513 law students that graduated during the LDC’s 45th graduation ceremony held on Friday. The other big name graduands in the same batch included ex-Minister Kabakumba Matsiko and Sylver Kyagulanyi. The other would be the outspoken Rwemiyaga MP Theodore Sekikubo who unsuccessfully sought caught intervention after failing to qualify for graduation.
Remarkably in the same Baze class was Kabakumba’s flamboyant son Mushemeza Cheguevara Omurungi who is also now a fully-fledged lawyer. Information sent to this news website by LDC Communications Manager Hamis Lukyamuzi shows that by emerging the overall best, Baze qualified for the Chief Justice’s Prize (whatever that means). Others who too excelled included ex-Local government PS Mzee Vincent Sekono’s son Mark Kizza Sekiranda who emerged best in the civil litigation paper and thereby walking away with the Acadia Advocates Prize. Others are Issa Ogomba (best in moot), Police lady Ruth Kintu (best graduate in professional conduct), Agatha Natasha Ahimbisibwe (corporate & commercial practice paper), Eunice Kalungi (4th best graduate), Christine Rebecca Mutesi (3rd best) and Leila Linda Najjemba (2nd best) who walked off with the Attorney General’s Prize.
There are others who excelled at the diploma in human rights level (Daisy Kissa, Rebecca Nanyonjo, and Doreen Arago) and diploma in law course (Mesach Sekamate, Innocent Wandera Bomera & Moses Eripu). Also on the list of the 513 who graduated are two eminent Observer newspaper journalists namely Edward Sekika and the famously very outspoken Sulaiman Kakaire. And (Kakaire) the man from Iganga can now fulfill his dream of complimenting his mentor Isaac Semakadde (he did clerkship at his firm) in giving a voice to the voiceless and the legally-marginalized. For comments, call/text/whatsapp us on 0703164755!
