Elly Maate, the Kigezi Region Police Spokesperson, says they have with immediate effect blocked access to the town council from Kyonyo in Kamuganguzi Sub County and Ryakarimira in Ryakarimira town council. Maate says that no vehicle is allowed to access Katuna town council without security clearance.
Read more ...“Mugoya had hidden the Semi-Automated Rifle –SAR inside one of the University branches where he had deployed two security guards to protect the premises. The gun was recovered with bullets,” the source said.
Read more ...Mukono Town Clerk, Richard Monday, says the move is intended to reduce confusion in the transport sector and stop reckless driving in major trading centers. However, the taxi drivers say they are ready to defy the directive because passengers avoid taxis in parks.
Read more ...Habyara replaces Superintendent of Police, Cyrus Tugume Katta, who has been serving in acting capacity since the reign of Gen Edward Kale Kayihura. The Police Witness Protection Unit is mandated with protecting witnesses whose life is deemed to be at risk given the nature of the cases they are involved in.
Read more ...The meeting, scheduled for this Friday is part of the resolutions of the quadripartite summit held in Luanda, Angola on February 2, 2020, to resolve a year-long standoff between the two neighbouring countries. It was mediated by João Lourenço, the President of Angola and Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Read more ...Oyebode tasked URA to explain its reverse technology since local counterfeiters package fake products in branded boxes, tins and bottles.
Read more ...Pius Mugisha, a resident of Rushaki in Central division, says that he was assaulted twice by soldiers on his way home from the trading Centre. Mugisha says that the soldiers who beat him were not on official duties since they had drunk together in the same pub earlier on.
Read more ...Aswa River Region Police Spokesperson, Patrick Jimmy Okema disclosed that the victim’s mother revealed that the alleged kidnappers called and demanded 400,000 shillings to be sent to the victim’s contact before he is released.
Read more ...The UPDF soldier whose gun was stolen was attached to the home of Mityana deputy Resident District Commissioner. Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, earlier said the gun was stolen on February 13 and later used in robbery of a mobile money operator in Mubende district.
Read more ...Godfrey Ssenkaayi, the Masaka District Entomology Officer, says their analysis has since established that the suspicious insects are real desert locusts. He however, expressed doubt that the insects were captured in the area.
Read more ...A police officer at the same rank with Okot told Uganda Radio Network –URN on Saturday that the officer is diabetic and had been warned against alcohol consumption in vain.
Read more ...Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, confirmed that teams from Criminal Investigation Directorate – CID headquarters and Flying Squad Unit –FSU have been dispatched to join territorial police in Busoga East to ensure Sheikh Mutumba’s assailants are arrested.
Read more ...“Government is paying money on a decentralized system for the Organisation. We have to know what happens in the districts. Why can’t some of these services be executed in the districts? Why do you have to bring the whole Uganda here [in Kololo] and expose our weaknesses?” Biribonwa questions why all services are being offered at the Kololo-based NIRA headquarters.
Read more ...John Patrick Mayanja, the Chairperson of fishermen at Kishenyi Landing Site, says the soldiers arrived when the fishermen were checking on their nets and shot at them.
Read more ...The former presidential candidate Maj. Gen. Benon Biraaro was laid to rest today at his ancestral home in Rukiga Rwengando, Nyarugando Parish, Masha Sub County Isingiro District.
Read more ...Aron Nyesiga, a resident of Rumuri cell, says that the late Biraro constructed a church in the area, a borehole and water dams used by over four villages in Masha parish.
Read more ...Augustine Yeko, a resident of Lwanda village, Cheberen parish, Benet Sub County, in Kween District was on Saturday found dead near a river.
Read more ...The outpost was temporarily closed two weeks ago due to lack of manpower and dilapidated structures.
Read more ...According to the communique signed by Uganda Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa and Rwanda’s State Minister for East African Affairs Ambassador Olivier Nduhungirehe, “both parties agreed to resume the collaboration between their defense and security organs...in the interest of their national security”.
Read more ...In 2018, unsuspecting members of public including several police officers were fleeced of money by a one Geoffrey Kalele, a resident of Kalitumba, Magada Sub county, Namutumba District when he created and used a Facebook page in the names of the IGP Martin Okoth Ochola, to solicit money from them in the pretense of helping them acquire better offices and promotions.
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