Police earlier today said that the task team actively investigating the double murder of Nantongo Brenda and Kayondo Haruna, and the attempted murder of General Katumba Wamala and his bodyguard Sgt. Koboyoit Khalid, has registered more success after they recovered the second killer gun from Namuwongo. According to the Deputy Inspector General of police Maj…
The Civil Division of High Court presided over by Justice Musa Ssekaana has ordered a former employee of Uganda Baati to pay 20 Million Shillings in damages for defrauding the company. According to the ruling, Justice Ssekaana ordered Duncan Mugabi to pay 15 Million Shillings in general damages and 5 Million in punitive damages for…
Three more suspects in the attempted assassination of works minister Gen Edward Katumba Wamala have been shot dead. According to New Vision, the shooting took place in Kanyogoga, Namuwongo in Makindye Division, Kampala. Vision further reports that the Friday morning operation was led by the Crime Intelligence Director, Christopher Ddamulira. Two SMG guns and a pistol…
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo: At least 10 people were killed overnight in a raid on the city of Beni in eastern Congo, witnesses said, and a civil society group and a monitoring body said Islamist militants were suspected of being behind the attack. Residents said a group of attackers had set several houses on…
The officer in charge of Kyera police post, in Kyera Sub-county, Lwemiyaga County, Sembabule district survived being lynched by an angry mob after he badly beat a woman in the area. We’ve learnt that Gaston Bogere narrowly survived lynching on Thursday evening after he pounced on Juliet Tumwesigye, a resident of Kyera cell A, in…
Police in Rubanda district have arrested a 45-year-old man who allegedly set his house on fire, killing his wife and three children following a family misunderstanding. The gruesome incident happened on Saturday at 10:30pm in Habutobere Village, Butare Parish in Muko Sub-county, Rubanda District, Western Uganda. Elly Maate, the Kigezi Sub-region police spokesman confirmed the…
Uganda police and sister security agencies in Rukungiri District have started investigations into a fire outbreak that razed down a house killing one person beyond recognition. left a 44 year old man dead. This website have learnt that a 44 year old Arinaitwe Eric (now deceased) a resident of Nyamitooma II village in Western ward,…
The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) is puzzled over the whereabouts of the body guards of General Katumba Wamala, the former army commander and Works and Transport Minister, who was shot at this morning. Unidentified gunmen riding on motorcycles intercepted Katumba Wamala’s vehicle registration number H4DF 2138 along Kisota road in Kisaasi and sprayed it…
A police officer and a civilian have been arrested in Lira district in possession of an illegal firearm they were trying to sell. Emmanuel Onyanga, a PPC no_71630 attached to Bugweri police station and Isaac Ocaka, 30-years old, a peasant of Teduka cell, Aduku town council in Kwania district were arrested following a tip off…
Motorcycles impounded during the swearing of President Yoweri Museveni have landed police commanders in trouble after the police leadership ordered a probe into how they were released without the cyclists paying the penalty of 40,000 shillings. We’ve learnt that the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Edward Osiru Ochom, who is also director of police operations has…
