The United States has imposed financial sanctions and visa restrictions on four Ugandan individuals for their involvement in activities that victimized young children in a corrupt adoption scheme. Ugandan judges Moses Mukiibi and Wilson Musalu Musene, and Ugandan lawyer Dorah Mirembe and her associate Patrick Ecobu, participated in a scam whereby young children were removed…
Troubled Bank of Uganda (BoU) Director for Financial Markets Development Coordination (FMDC) Benedict Sekabira has rebuffed summons by the Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (CIID), telling operatives that he cannot be summoned like a chicken thief. Sekabira is wanted by Police to explain his role in the concealment and seizure of the land titles belonging…
Fifteen people are dead and more than 20 are being treated in hospital following a deadly attack by militants at a seaside hotel in Somalia. Militant group al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Elite Hotel in Lido beach, in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday. The attack started with a suicide car…
The Uganda Police Force together with sister security operatives have arrested one suspect in connection to rampant theft of Boda Bodas around the metropolitan area. According to Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesman Patrick Onyango, Bujunju Henry a resident of Nansana Municipality in Wakiso District stole the motorcycle belonging to Stephen Ssembalirwa from Nabbingo. “Ssembalirwa notified Police…
Uganda Police Force with Sister Security agencies have uncovered three marijuana gardens from hidden gardens in areas of Kyengezi in Masuuliita, Nansomba and Nampunge in Kakiti town council, Wakiso district. According to Police, the gardens collectively measured about 40 acres. A team of about 30 policemen from Kakiri police division backed by Uganda People’s Defence…
Former WBS TV journalist Andrew Lwanga has been awarded 268 million Shillings as compensation for the injuries he sustained when he was assaulted by the former Old Kampala District Police Commander Joram Mwesigye. The compensation covers 18 million Shillings as special damages and 250 million Shillings as general damages to cover the cost of medical…
Around the 20th of April 2020, about a month into the most stringent part of the Covid-19 lockdown, Mr Francis Zzake, the Honourable Member of Parliament from Mityana Municipality held a food drive in his constituency. Not long afterwards, the junior minister for Investments and Privatization in the Ministry of Finance, Evelyn Anite, followed suite…
In a rather unpopular turn of events, Somalia president and his deputy exchanged James Bond kind of blows to the point of wrestling to the ground. The duo were sitted next and close to each other in what seemed like a press briefing or public interview. In a video that went rival, the duo were…
The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) her lordship Jane Frances Abodo is determined to bring justice to owners of defunct banks; International Credit Bank (ICB), Greenland Bank and Cooperative Bank whose properties were taken over and sold by Bank of Uganda dubiously. The DPP had last week ordered police to round up, question and search…
Our investigators have unearthed a cartel of Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) customs staff and staff from the National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), who are conniving to smuggle Kenyan Kay salt into Uganda. This is going on even after President Yoweri Museveni cautioned URA officials about the rampant corruption and tax evasion in the country. Museveni…
