Uganda’s Counter terrorism team is on high alert the recent arrest of one of Kenya/America’s most wanted terrorist, Abdikadir Mohammed Mahat. Following Mahat’s arrest, Uganda is on high alert.This comes after plans to attack Owino Market, State House Nakesero, Serena Hotel and Mulago Hospital among other sensitive places. To this, Counter Terrorism Director Abas Byakagaba…
Fifteen people travelling in a Kampala-bound taxi have been killed in a road accident in Imanyiro village along the Musita-Lumino highway in Mayuge district. The deceased who were vendors from Namayingo town council were travelling to Kampala in a taxi registration number UBD 089A. The accident occurred at around 5:00 am according to police. James…
Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has ordered the deportation of four Chinese involved in the caning of a Kenyan at Chez Wou Restaurant in Kileleshwa. The four were arrested by the DCI detectives following a viral video showing a Kenyan employee being whipped for arriving late to work. Matiangi’s orders on Thursday came hours…
Corporal Geoffrey Okello, a Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) soldier has been arrested in relation to a shooting which claimed three lives in Gulu town on Monday evening. Okello was arrested in the wee hours of Tuesday and is now detained at the 4th Division barracks in Gulu. Okello is accused of gunning down 52-year-old Beatrice…
Police at Kiira road Station received a disturbance call about a robbery that was taking place at the home of Natif Nicholas located along Matayo close Kigowa II Zone in Bukoto II Parish . It is alleged that about four unknown thugs had attacked and seriously assaulted private security guard and also intercepted the owner…
The Inspectorate of Government (IG) has has on Wednesday February, 12, 2019 arrested the former Town Clerk of Kamwenge Town Council, Mathew Tumushabe Atwiine, for misappropriation of UGX 4,450,000 (Four million four hundred thousand only). Atwiine has been charged with one count of Embezzlement contrary to Section 19 of the Anti-Corruption Act, 2009 and an…
Exporting labour is perhaps one of the most delicate undertakings any country can indulge in, especially if its policy makers appreciate it from the purview of a quick fix to the biting unemployment ravaging impoverished countries in the third world. It is, for all intents and purposes, modern day slavery euphemisms as human trafficking and…
Police in Kampala Metropolitan (KMP) has started investigating circumstances under which a police attached at Bunamwaya community police post were bonkers on Tuesday afternoon and shot dead his fellow investigative officer. According to Deputy KMP Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, revealed that police officer PC No. 53443 Ben Ojilong had a bitter exchange with CPL No.…
Police in Hoima have arrested a 70-year-old man on allegations of defiling his 5-year-old granddaughter. The suspect is Keya Kafeero, a resident of Buhirigi LCI in Buhirigi parish Bombo Sub-county Hoima district. Kafeero reportedly grabbed the child after she had been sent by the mother to collect plates from Kafeero’s house on Monday afternoon at…
It was a shock and grief on Monday February 10, 2020 evening when a UPDF soldier attached to Gulu Military Baracks took a gun and Shot dead three people in Gulu town. The incident that claimed lives of Beatrice Ajok, 52, her two sons; Owen Norman, who has been a Senior Six student of St.…
