The Crime Intelligence Unit in Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) area, in coordination with the Flying Squad Unit KMP South have busted a taxi crime gang which is behind the murders of female passengers mostly in Kajjansi in Wakiso district. Fred Enanga, the Police spokesperson said that through the intelligence led operation, the security team arrested […]
The Greater Masaka Journalists Association (GREMAJA), an umbrella association representing all journalists in the Masaka sub region, has strongly condemned the recent assault of some of its members by the body guard of National Unity Platform (NUP) President Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. The GRMAJA president, Farish Magembe in a press statement issued on Sunday highlighted that […]
Buikwe Resident District Commissioner ( is facing strong accusations of conniving with unscrupulous land dealers to seize valuable plots of land from unsuspecting residents.RDC) Hajjati Hawa Ndege Among the affected, is the family of the Late Alexander Kiwombojjo whose plot of land is located at Ngogwe sub-county in Buikwe District, which is currently at the […]
Police have identified a thug who hacked a client at a cash office in Nateete, on the outskirts of Kampala. The suspect has been identified as Ashraf Kiiza, an employee at Bashir Grain Millers. Kiiza attacked Sam Turyamuhaki on Monday at around 8:00pm when he walked into the cash office with a machete and a […]
Police in Wobulenzi Town Council are holding a self-proclaimed Jesus and his follower for refusing to be enumerated in the ongoing National Population and Housing Census 2024. Enumerators met strong resistance at Katikamu Luyima zone in Wobulenzi town council on Monday after a man who claims to be the Jesus, and his followers, refused to […]
Buhweju County Member of Parliament (MP) Francis Mwijukye and Juliet Kyarisima, a journalist with Vision Group, are recuperating from injuries sustained during a dispute over land in Buhweju district. The altercation occurred at Rwanyamabare village, Omuhambo Kyakatungu parish, Buhweju district, where Mwijukye and Kyarisima were attacked on Sunday while attending Sunday Mass at Rwanyamabare Catholic […]
Police in Luweero district have arrested an enumerator over the theft of a tablet ahead of a census exercise on Thursday. Uganda Bureau of Statistics has deployed 1,532 enumerators and 192 supervisors in Luweero district for the National Population Census scheduled to start on Thursday, May 10, 2024. Each enumerator has been given tablets to record […]
The State House Anti-corruption Unit together with the Crime Investigating Department have today arraigned before the Anti-corruption court two officials of Obongi district Local Government and charged them with abuse of office and embezzlement. The suspects include; the Senior Human Resource Officer Rasul Burhan Gobe and the then Ag. Chief Finance Officer Adaku Alfred. Court […]
The High Court in Kampala has sentenced Inspector of Police Emmanuel Wilson Abura to 50 years in jail for strangling his colleague’s nine-year-old niece to death. The incident happened at Naalya Housing Estate where they used to share a house with the deceased’s uncle Corporal Joel Mwondha. The Criminal Division Judge Margaret Mutonyi on Wednesday […]
The High court in Kampala has set free a 75-year-old man who has been facing charges of aggrevated defilement. Court identified the suspect as Godfrey Ssozi, whose pardon came after he pleaded guilty to charges of aggrevated defilement and asked for forgiveness. Ssozi is said to have defiled a seven-year-old neighbour’s daughter. Mzee Ssozi who […]