Police in conjunction with Uganda Revenue Authority—URA staff have impounded 18 boxes of smuggled Supermatch cigarettes worth 10 million shillings in Kyenjojo town council.
TheDistrict Police Commander Kyenjojo Abed Samuel says the URA officials from Fort Portal led by Daniel Basaija carried out an operation on Friday morning following a tip off that there was smuggled cigarette being sold on the market.
Abed says the URA officials searched the home of Akugizibwe Seya, a prominent businessman in Kyenjojo town but they did not find the smuggled cigarettes.
He says that Akugizibwe’s wife Annet Kobusinge was at the shop by the time they invaded and surrounded the house.
Abed says that police together with the URA staff then moved to Kobusinge’s shop located along the Fort Portal-Kampala road near the police station and asked her to close the shop and go home with them.
URA asked Kobusinge to open all the rooms as they checked but she refused to open one of the rooms where boxes of cigarettes were kept claiming that she had no keys.
The broke the door and recovered 18 bags of smuggled cigarettes.
DPC Abed says that a few boxes of cigarette were left at Kyenjojo police station as an exhibit while the rest was taken to Fort Portal.
When the URA officials called Akugizibwe on phone, he said was in Kampala on a business trip.
Abed says Kobusinge was arrested and she is now being detained at the central police station. He says Kobusinge faces charges of being in possession of smuggled goods once.
The police are still looking for Akugizibwe who is suspected to be coordinating smuggling activities in Kyenjojo and Kibaale districts.
