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News

Senior Police Officer Kakana Arrested In Robbery Of shs117M

On September 19, 2023, a group of five men intercepted a taxi and robbed $317,900 at Nakirebe along Kampala Masaka road. One of the thugs was clad in a Police uniform with the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police armed with a

November 21, 2023

Op-ed·Politics

OP-ED: I Urgently Need To Inherit Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere’s Big, Black Book

OBITUARY | Alfred Geresom Musamali | Now that former Democratic Party (DP) President-General Dr Paul Kawanga Ssemogere is dead, I urgently need to inherit one of his intellectual property items – to wit, the Big, Black Book in which during the 1980s he

November 19, 2022

Crime

LUWERO: Unknown Gunmen Kill Two Policemen, Set Station On Fire

A joint security team in Luwero district has launched a manhunt for assailants who raided a police station 33km outside Kampala and shot two Policemen dead. The incident occured at Busiika Police Station in Busiika town council in Luwero district at around

November 2, 2022

National News

POLICE REPORT: DNA Analysis Pins Three Suspects In Bukwo CAO Gruesome Murder

The Police Directorate of Forensic Science has finally zeroed in on three suspects in the attack and eventual killing of Charles Ogwang, the acting Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of Bukwo district. Ogwang was killed on July 8, as he drove a government

October 7, 2022

Crime·Health

Police Names Mbale City Flood Victims, As Death Toll Hits 20

The death toll of the Mbale city flood victims has increased to 20 people. Ten more bodies have been recovered this morning from River Nabuyonga in Mbale City Industrial Division. The 10 were traveling in a super custom, which plunged into the

August 1, 2022

Crime

Security Guard Robs Indian Businessman UGX 8M at Gunpoint

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

July 17, 2022

Crime

Crime Intelligence Officer & Family Die In Nasty Road Accident

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

July 17, 2022

Security

Uganda Police Unveils ‘Army-like’ Uniform For Officers Fighting Cattle Theft In Karamoja

In an effort to curb cattle theft, the Uganda Police Force has officially announced that it has changed the Operation Uniform for Anti-Stock Theft Unit personnel operating in Karamoja sub region and the neighboring districts. All the ASTU police officers operating in

June 17, 2022

Business·Crime

Police Probe Ugandan Security Company Over UGX 33 Billion Missing Gold

Uganda Police on Friday opened investigations into the missing 210kg of gold that were entrusted to a Ugandan Security company Quantico Security Limited for safe-keeping in December 2021 by a Congolese national but went missing under controversial circumstances. We’ve learnt that the

June 15, 2022

Crime

Woman Jailed 15 Years For killing 2-year-old Child Over Food

The High Court in Apac has sentenced a woman in Kwania district to 15 years in jail after she pleaded guilty of killing 2-year-old baby over food. Winny Alwedo,24, a resident of Acambu Village in Kwania District told court that she killed

June 10, 2022