High Court in Kampala has ordered the Director of Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence and Inspector General of Uganda police force to unconditionally release detained ISO operative Simon Peter Odongo. In the ruling delivered today by the assistant registrar of court Dr Alex Mugisha on behalf of Justice Micheal Elubu set constitutional orders to have Mr.Odongo…
It is now exactly 4 days since Ronald Nahabwe, a journalist with The Capital Times, an online news publication, was arrested and detained at the Special Investigations Division (SIU), Kireka, where is he has been in detention for days without the police pressing any charges against him. We have established that Nahabwe was arrested on…
By Isaac Nabimanya Officials of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) have come under fire after allegedly procuring a large consignment of water supply meters which have since turned out to be fake, yet they cost government hundreds of millions of Shillings. According to documents seen by this website, the prepaid meters were procured…
News that has just reached us indicates that Ronald Gold Nahabwe, a reporter with The Capital Times news website, has Monday morning been arrested by the team of detectives led by the Grace Akullo, the Director of the Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Directorate (CIID), in Kibuli. According to our sources, Nahabwe, a renowned investigative reporter,…
Police have on Sunday June 21 arrested over 30 people around Nansana over defying the Covid-19 presidential directives. The arrest followed an operation in and around Makutano Hotel where police found the sauna functional, the bar open and business as usual. According to Patrick Onyango, 30 people were arrested and detained at Nansana Police Station.…
Business along Obote Avenue and Lira Main Market came to stand still when a FUSO truck registration number UAQ 572W lost control and rammed into a group of people. The truck which was loaded with cement had a brake failure and knocked a tipper registration number UBG-149D, which was ahead of it before swerving off…
Police has impounded eight motor vehicles in Mbarara that were coming from border districts. The operation carried out on Thursday night intercepted the vehicles that were using porous routes in order to beat the traffic check points. The motor vehicles were impounded at remote check points set up on the Katete bridge, Kaburangire bridge, Nyamitanga…
The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) have opened up about the sudden and tragic death of Annet Musumba, the mother of late Lt Andrew Muduli, which occurred abruptly on Thursday June 18, 2020, at Postel Building, in Kampala. According to the UPDF Deputy Spokesperson Lt. Col. Deo Akiiki, the deceased has been identified as Masumba…
A junior Uganda Police officer has been remanded to Kasangati prison in Wakiso District for defrauding a senior UPDF general in a fake motor vehicle transaction. Constable Emmanuel Omoko appeared before Buganda Road court Grade one Magistrate Joan Acaa on Tuesday and read two cases of impersonation and obtaining money by false pretense. Court heard…
Shock hit residents of Kabaga Village in Karambi parish, Nyarubuye Sub County, Kisoro District when a 54 old man ended his life in a painful way. The deceased Mbarushimana Ponsiano, 56 years on a Monday June 15,2020 night ended his life by hanging self on an avocado tree using a rope made of a mosquito…
