Frederick Martin Stephen Egonda-Ntende is a

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...

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who serves as a Justice of the

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, which doubles as the Constitutional Court of Uganda. Prior to that, from 2009 until 2014, he served as the

Chief Justice of the Seychelles The Supreme Court of Seychelles is the highest trial court in Seychelles. It was created in 1903 by Order in Council, when it consisted of one judge who was the Chief Justice of the Court. Appeal cases with final judgments of the court in civil m ...

. He was sworn in as Chief Justice on Friday, August 21, 2009 at

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in the Seychelles capital city,

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. Prior to that he served as Acting Justice of the

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. He was also involved in the setting up of an independent judiciary in

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, where he served as a judge of the

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. Egonda-Ntende lectured Law at

Makerere University Makerere University, Kampala (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of ni ...

in Uganda and was the chairperson of the Law Reporting Committee of the Judiciary in Uganda. He also has extensive experience in dealing with matters of drug trafficking while working as a judge in the United Nations Mission in

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(

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).Egonda-Ntende Sworn In As Chief Justice of Seychelles
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