The Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has condemned the brutal killing of a policeman and injury of another in an attack at a roadblock in Luwero district along the Kampala-Gulu highway. On Monday at around 12.30pm, assailants armed with machetes emerged from both sides of the checkpoint and attacked the two field force…
Juliet Najjuma Senkoole, the Resident District Commissioner of Kalangala has blocked the eviction of over 100 residents on a contested piece of land in Bujumba County. Senkoole made the directive on Saturday during a meeting between the affected residents and Nsamba Lubega, who claims ownership of the land. The disputed land covers 61.256 hectares in…
The head of the High Court Commercial Division Justice Stephen Mubiru literally threw under the bus a bank client one Aida Atiku when he absolved Centenary Bank of any liability of fraud occasioned to Ms. Atiku’s account. On July 18th 2022 making a ruling in a case in which Aida Atiku had sued Centenary Bank…
Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) Group, the United Kingdom’s development finance institution recently announced its decision to sell its remaining 9.97% stake in the troubled dfcu bank. The shareholding was sold to IFU, the Danish development finance institution. CDC made its first investment in DFCU in 1964 as a founding partner to the bank and has…
More children have flooded city streets in the last two months despite efforts by authorities to evict and rehabilitate them, sparking mixed reactions about their safety. The children, who have made begging their mainstay, commute from their various places of abode in city slums every morning to storm the streets in search of a fortune.…
The joint security team comprising Crime Intelligence, Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence and Internal Security Organisation has arrested a government driver attached to Ministry of Internal Affairs – MIA and a civilian from Nabweru division, Nansana municipality over the staging of ‘military’ robbery roadblocks. Security arrested the MIA driver basing on the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)…
Unknown assailants have stabbed to death Sharif Alon, a primary five pupil of Arua Parents Primary school in Arua city. His relatives say the minor met his death at the hands of the assailants on Sunday night. The deceased’s body was found lying along Mududu road in Enyau cell, Kenya ward in Arua central division,…
The Court of Appeal in Kampala has upheld the more than Shillings 90million award given to Mary Pamela Sozi, the former Director of Finance and Administration in the Public Procurement Disposable Act-PPDA in compensation for unlawful termination of her contract. The judgment arises from a decision by the then High Court Judge, Elizabeth Musoke in…
A private guard from Accurate Security Company Limited is on the run after allegedly robbing Sh8 million from an Indian businessman he was guarding. The suspect has been identified as Amos Ecidu. He is wanted for robbing Indian businessman, Shintole Nisnant at gunpoint in Makanga village, Central Division in, Kabale municipality around 9:30 pm on Friday night. Nisnant, who…
Cleopus Bwesigye, a crime intelligence officer from the Kampala Metropolitan South headquarters at Katwe has died in a road crash together with his wife and three children on the Masaka-Kampala highway. The traffic police spokesperson, Faridah Nampiima explains that Bwesigye was traveling back to Kampala Saturday morning in a Toyota Wish UBE 756C, which got involved…
