Joseph Kalias Ekemu (September 5, 1944) is a retired Attorney General of Uganda, lawmaker and statesman.
[3] Ekemu along with David Kamwada, his personal assistant were jailed for two years at the Luzira prison over Shs113 million theft meant for Teso people who had lost their cattle during the insurgency of 1987 to 1990, the money was to compensate the Teso people.
[4] Other convictions were on five counts amongst which is the forgery of a Greenland Bank account opening form and the sentence was on money belonging to a foreigner, Suresh Ghelan.
Elijah Wante who had known Ekamu for a long time advised him to file a fresh application for reinstatement.
After pleading to the LCDC committee board to allow him to continue practising law saying he had suffered a lot, the board noticed the five months left for him to end two mandatory years and later required him to file a new one after the terms ends.