{"id":63499,"date":"2023-03-07T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T08:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=63499"},"modified":"2023-03-07T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T08:17:48","slug":"justice-kenneth-kakuru-dies-at-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/justice-kenneth-kakuru-dies-at-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Kenneth Kakuru dies at 65"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Monitor Reporter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Court of Appeal Justice Kenneth Kakuru has died at the age of 65,\u00a0Judiciary spokesperson Jamson Karemani has confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He has been admitted to Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi for stage four prostate cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The outspoken judge, had in 2021 applied to retire seven years earlier due to a health condition he was dealing with.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYes it is true, I have applied for early retirement on account of health. I have been told that the management and treatment of this\u00a0condition will go on for the rest of my life,\u201d he then told the\u00a0Monitor<\/em>\u00a0in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Justice Kakuru who\u00a0gained fame for his dissenting judgment in the \u2018age limit case\u2019, has been on the appellate court\u2019s bench since 2013 when he was tapped from private practice.<\/p>\n

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In the aforementioned case, Justice Kakuru was the only one of five judges to rule that the amendment of the Constitution in 2017 to remove lower and upper age limits for presidential and local government candidates was done illegally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He based his ruling on a number of factors, but especially on what he called lack of consultation of the public during the process of the amendment. Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By\u00a0Monitor Reporter Court of Appeal Justice Kenneth Kakuru has died at the age of 65,\u00a0Judiciary spokesperson Jamson Karemani has confirmed. He has been admitted to Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi for stage four prostate cancer. The outspoken judge, had in 2021 applied to retire seven years earlier due to a health condition he was dealing with. \u201cYes it is true, I have applied for early retirement on account of health. I have been told that the management and treatment of this\u00a0condition will go on for the rest of my life,\u201d he then told the\u00a0Monitor\u00a0in an interview. Justice Kakuru who\u00a0gained fame for his dissenting judgment in the \u2018age limit case\u2019, has been on the appellate court\u2019s bench since 2013 when he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":63500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"F j, Y g:i a","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1452],"class_list":["post-63499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-justice-kenneth-kakuru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}