A joint security team has searched the offices of former security minister also a presidential aspirant, Lt Gen Henry Tumukunde. The search at Tumukunde’s premises was conducted by the elite Special Forces Command (SFC), Joint Anti-Terrorism Task Force (JATT), Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID). CID director AIGP Grace Akullo spearheaded…
A joint security task team led by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, arrested Lt. Gen. Henry Tumukunde for alleged Treason. His premises at Kololo were secured for further search this morning, for any additional evidence of material value. According to police spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed that the arrest follows his utterances in a series of…
Police at Old Kampala has arrested Armed robbers who raided Premier Slorts Betting LTD in Bukesa near Bukesa traffic lights. Four thugs armed with a rifle attacked the cashiers of the betting company, put them on gunpoint before demanding for money and mobile phone sets. Uganda police later issued a statement on March 13, 2020…
Lt. Col. Carol Nyakaisiki Basaliza, a senior officer of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF), is being accused by family members of allegedly pocketing her late brother Maj. Francis Kasaija’s pension, instead of giving it to the orphans. Col. Nyakaisiki is sister to late Major Francis Kasaija, who passed away two years back. However, family…
Four police constables attached to Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) have been suspended for shooting and injuring a student during an operation against street vendors. Loenah Rachael Nankya, 14, a student Naalya SS Lugazi was hit with a rubber bullet in the mouth, making her lose at least three teeth. At around 1 pm on…
Simon Nkonge, the Commandant of the Cyber Unit at Kampala Central Police Station is in trouble for allegedly of extorting $ 60,000 (about Shs222 million) from a city businessman. Nkonge was arrested on Wednesday morning by operatives from the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) shortly after receiving the money from, one Vincent Luyinda. He was…
Uganda Police have summoned KCCA law enforcement officers to explain circumstances under which a senior six student was shot during an operation against street vendors in Kampala city on Tuesday, March 10. Rachel Nankya, a student of Lugazi Mixed SSS, her mother and another man only identified as Jimmy were seriously injured during the shooting…
A senior six student was on Tuesday shot in the mouth by police as they dispersed rowdy vendors and hawkers at Kajja next to the Old Taxi Park. Ms Lowena Nankya, a student of Lugazi Mixed School, was on her way to school in the company of her mother who also sustained a broken arm…
Seven people have died in two separate accidents at Kakira on the Jinja-Iganga highway. At Kakira, six people died on spot at about 10:15 pm on Monday when a commuter taxi in which they were traveling, collided with a cargo truck that was heading to Kampala, according to Mr Ashraf Magoma, a witness. A short…
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Deputy Spokesperson Lt Col Deo Akiiki, has spoken out on the attack on a detach in Zombo. In the March 9, 2020 statement, Col. Akiiki said that the attackers, who raided a Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) base in Oduk Village in Zombo Town Council, Zombo District were mobilised…
