Police in Mbarara District are holding two (02) suspects in custody in connection with stealing from motor vehicles. The Police have identified the suspects as; Asiimwe Josephat (30) a businessman from Bwambala Rukungiri District and Nakunda Javira (34) a businessman from Buremba, Kazo District. Samson Kasasira, the Police spokesperson for Rwizi Police Region alleged that […]
Nansana police in Wakiso district is holding two officials of Wakiso Boda Boda Riders and Owners SACCO for diverting to personal use members’ savings amounting to sh100m which was due for sharing ahead of Christmas. The SACCO chairman, Umar Kiggundu and the defence secretary Hassan Mukumbi are said to have diverted savings of the over 200 […]
A police swoop has disbanded groups of gangsters behind the ongoing robberies, murders, break-ins and rapes in and around Kampala and Metropolitan Areas. According to Police, they have arrested several leaders of these gangs who were forced to reveal facts around their operations. Police who were tickled by an upsurge in these crimes in Kampala, […]
The Police spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke has disclosed that the police force has stepped up operations geared at curbing the rising incidents of robberies and burglaries by organized criminal gangs in and around Kampala, and that by press time, eight leaders of such groups who have been top on the list of the force’s wanted criminals had been […]
Several gangsters commonly known as ‘kifeesi’ were on Tuesday arrested in a police operation mounted after residents of Ntaawo cell in Goma Division reported unrest resulting from death threats by the gangsters brought to the village by members of the family of the late Hamu Mukasa to allegedly guard their land from encroachers. According to […]
The Kassanda police fraternity is mourning the death of their colleague, Moses Aliguma, who was killed in a road accident on Monday evening at Nakiganda village, along the Mityana-Mubende road. Aliguma, who was riding a Bajaj Boxer motorcycle (UFP 815R), was struck by a Fuso Fighter milk tanker, which was trying to dodge a pothole. […]
The Police in conjunction with the UPDF, intelligence and local council vigilantes have arrested 18 suspected criminals who have been terrorizing Mukono and the surrounding areas. Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan spokesperson says the suspects’ arrest followed a successful joint operation which was conducted on Monday, November 25, 2024, between 11:00pm and 4:00am in Kubbiri, […]
They asked him to surrender money, a mobile phone and any other valuables, and when he declared that he had left everything at home before going to the mosque, they hit him with a paver and killed him. A 21-year old student of Victoria University identified as Abdallah Ali Muhammad died instantly after being hit on the […]
The Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) have secured sh50bn for the construction of accommodation facilities for soldiers. The Commander of Fourth Division Barracks Brigadier General Felix Busizoori noted that the fund was secured through the Ministry of Defense to improve the welfare of soldiers and their living conditions within the Barracks. Busizoori explained that the […]
Two people have been arrested in connection to the death of the acting Health Officer for Arua District Paul Bishop Drileba. The suspects whose names have not been divulged for security reasons were picked up on Saturday night by a team of security officials led by the Arua Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Swaib Toko Paul […]