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Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

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“Just keep your evidence safely,” Advocate Paul Mukiibi advised. By the way, he is the Head of Department of Law Reporting, Research and Law Reform of the Law Development Center.

As a member of the Uganda Law Society (ULS), he is among those who are vying to be elected by his fellow learned friends to represent ULS on the Judicial Service Commission.

I am in the fifth year of being a damsel in distress, during which I am experiencing significant gender-based violence, malicious damage to my property, theft of my property, and other criminality meted out against me.

My attempt to seek justice and to be made whole, has put me in a position to have first hand experience with our justice, law and order sector.

The first port of call, the Police, who then interact with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution. When that route doesn’t help, identify a good member of the Bar to go civil litigation. Then be at the mercy of judicial officers.

I have a tale to tell.

Anyway, I was at a low point when I cried out to Advocate Mukiibi asking: “but how do I hold him to account?” He counseled me to be patient “we’re getting there slowly,” he said of the struggle to get the sector back on track.

To have a justice, law and order sector that is truly corruption free and in which those privileged to serve in it are competent and serve for the greater good of justice for all is the dream we wish would come true yesterday.

I have taken his advice seriously and to heart. One of the ways I now keep my evidence, is to curate it via my blog. As I do, I am learning about acceptable ways in which to report matters that are before courts of law. Some samples:

Click link and read “Civil Suit 18 of 2022 at High Court Holden in Mbale“

Click link and read “Miscellaneous Cause 18 of 2024 at Family Division of High Court in Kampala“

Not only am I growing in skills-set, I am now emotionally better equipped to respond to triggers. Identify them as such and find the strength to walk away and keep my peace. And, when I can, to avoid them completely.

Documenting my victim to victor journey is keeping me sane. It helps me hold up hope that I will be victorious. Without doing so, I would have since crumbled and lost my mind.