Soldiers attached to Fisheries Department on Sunday shot and killed two people as well as injuring 14 others. The soldiers, according to the report, fired live bullets while chasing fishmongers in Tooro Semliki game reserve. Police Spokesperson for Rwenzori West region, Lydia Tumushabe, told Daily Monitor one person was shot in the head while another…
The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party has disowned local musician Isaac Kitoogo aka Ambassador Wa Yesu who was nailed in the mouth. Kitoogo, 37, a resident of Nambozo Cell, Nkoma Ward in Mbale Municipality, told police he was beaten and a 3-inch nail driven through his right cheek on Monday night. Elgon region police…
The Police Advisory Committee (PAC) chaired by the Inspector General of Police-IGP Martin Okoth Ochola has dropped 2,000 police recruits over forgeries and surpassing required age. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga said that 2,000 out of 5,000 Probation Police Constables -PPC and Learner Assistant Inspector of Police – AIPs were dropped. The new recruitment will commence…
Police in Matuga has arrested a notorious criminal who has been robbing people at ATM machines. Atukwasa Julius, a resident of Kitagata Town Council, Sheema district was arrested yesterday at one of the ATM machines in Matuga where he was pretending to help a woman to withdraw money but with intentions of stealing her money.…
Convicted Serial Killer Richard Arinaitwe’s Life Imprisonment Sentence has been reduced to 24 years! In February, Arinaitwe petitioned the Court of Appeal to quash his life sentence. He has spent more than 20 years in Luzira prisons for the murder of an American Volunteer Cecilia Goetz, at Hotel Equatorial in Kampala, on July 28th 1998.…
Three suspects, among them two women, were detained in connection with forging URA documents and those of several other government institutions, bank stamps and international agencies. The trio, namely Ali Kimera Ssajjabi, Amina Nambalye and Hadijah Nakitende are said to be based along Nasser Road, Kampala. For days, we trailed the suspects until they were…
A team of police detectives from the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) has commence the probe on circumstances under which a local musician Michael Kalinda aka Ziggy Wyne was kidnapped, beaten and left for dead a couple of weeks ago. Ziggy Wyne breathed his last on Sunday evening at Mulago National Referral Hospital where he was…
The territorial Police in Bombo, is actively investigating a traffic incident of reckless and dangerous driving, that was caught on video and widely shared. The incident occurred on Saturday, 27th, July 2019 at around 3PM, along the Bombo – Luwero Highway, where the driver of a Land Rover {old model} under registration number UXW 839,…
Police in Jinja has initiated investigations for the three suspects that attempted to rob KCB Bank, Jinja branch last evening. The three suspects including two private guards attached to pinnacle Security Company armed with rifles stormed the bank on Wednesday evening and demanded for money. The suspected thugs have been identified as Namutondo Willy and…
Arsenal stars Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac were chased for a mile by knife-wielding motorbike riders in an attempted daylight car-jacking in north London yesterday. Ozil, a £350,000-a-week midfielder, was ambushed by the robbers as he drove his black Mercedes G-Class through leafy Childs Hill at around 5pm on Thursday. But as the thugs surrounded the…
