Justice Geoffrey Kiryabwire of the Court of Appeal has described the Law Development Centre (LDC) as a furnace that moulds the best advocates for Uganda and the Judiciary.
“The furnace that moulds the advocates of Uganda are at the LDC. There are many people that finish their degree of law, but very few complete the Bar
According to Kiryabwire, many people go to LDC, but do not want to put in the energy to pass their exams.
“If a person graduates from LDC, his story and efforts shouldn’t go unnoticed,” Kiryabwire said, adding that writer Malcolm Gladwell documented some of the most successful people in the world, ‘but you will notice that if it wasn’t because of hard work, they wouldn’t be where they are now’.
“The more you invest in something, the better you become at it. If you invest many hours into something, then you will become an outlier even from your colleagues,” he said.
“Many of us do not want to invest time in some things that we do,” Kiryabwire said.
Olaunah who added a post graduate diploma in legal practice, said there is no way a person can say that he has achieved it all, but life is for those that are oppressed.
According to him, one has to always remain updated, educated and rendered useful to the community.
“If I had just retired and remained home, I would be among the people that are killing snakes in the village, but because I have been reading continuously that’s why I have been rendered useful and also added my contribution to the country,” Olaunah said.
“LDC is an institution of hunters. You have to hunt the lion with your bare hands. LDC is where you will get the worst experience, but if you don’t tighten your belt, you will fail,” Godfrey Kalikwira said.
In a tweet, Vision Group CEO Don Wanyama described Counsel Olaunah as a true fighter.
Source: New Vision