Uganda, April 29 -- The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has named 36 districts where they don't have presence at all.

Justice Jane Frances Abodo attributed the gap to having few number of prosecutors to be deployed across the country.

She said her office only has 406 prosecutors present in 95 districts.

The DPP made the remarks during the 7th Joan Kagezi Memorial Lecture in Kampala last week.

Justice Abodo urged President Museveni, who was the chief guest, to consider the progressive recruitment of an additional 455 prosecutors.

"Your Excellency, there are more magistrates than prosecutors. Ideally, the prosecutors should be more so that some stay in office to study new case files, guide police and attend to the p...