The Police in the Rwizi Region have arrested one of its own men who allegedly shot dead a UPDF Officer. Police identified the suspect as NO.50158 PC Opio Charles attached to Field Force Unit (FFU) of Mbarara Police and the deceased as L/CPL Yeremiah Paper, a UPDF officer attached to Ruhengyere Engineering Brigade in Kiruhura […]
By The Insight Post Uganda A strange legal battle has unfolded in Mukono district with police openly backing a woman who killed her two children, in her bid to gain custody of her only youngest surviving son. The harrowing tale happened in September last year as a 30-year-old Esther Nankya, a resident of Kikubankima cell, […]
It was a shocking experience to many of the Ugandans seeing the Indian Nationals burning to ashes the body of their colleague who was on Friday shot dead by a policeman. The body of Uttam Bhandari (37) who was shot dead by a police officer PC Ivan Wabwire was taken through the cultures of the Indians […]
Police have confirmed the arrest of PC Ivan Wabwire (30) who shot dead an Indian national, Uttam Bhandari on Friday. Wabwire was recorded on the CCTV cameras shooting Bhandari inside a banking facility of TFS Financial Services located at Raja Chambers on Parliamentary Avenue in Kampala City Centre. Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman, Luke Owoyesigyire says […]
The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Tumusiime Katsigazi, on Friday met with the delegation of the Indian business community living in Uganda. During the meeting, Katsigazi reassured the Indian nationals that the Uganda Police is committed to ensuring their security. This meeting followed a tragic incident in which UTTAM BHANDARI, an Indian […]
Indian National Shot Dead Inside Bank at Raja Chambers The business community in Kampala City Centre on Friday afternoon was shocked following the shooting of an Indian National. The incident is reported to have happened at Raja Chambers on Parliamentary Avenue. Eyewitnesses say that they saw a man dressed in Police Uniform shooting an Indian […]
The Police Crime Investigations Department (CID) has transferred three officers within the department who engaged in the complication of a case in which a fisherman in Katosi Town Council was murdered. The transferred CID officers include; Justus Twongirwe who has been the CID Officer in charge of Kampala Metropolitan East, the Mukono Division CID Officer Musa […]
Five people have been charged with 17 different charges related to several attacks carried out to a number of schools by armed assailants. The suspects have been identified as; Yusuf Babu, Reagan Mawejje, Paul Mayengo and Denis Egesa. They have appeared before His Worship Abubakar Nakibinge of Matugga Magistrate’s Court. The suspects have been charged […]
Nine people on Friday died on spot in a fatal accident which happened at Kyoja trading Centre in Kinoni sub-county, Lwengo district along Masaka-Mbarara highway. The deadly accident is said to have happened at around 4:00pm. Faridah Nampiima, the Traffic Police spokesperson reported that the deceased included seven adults and two juveniles. Nampiima said that […]
The Uganda Police Force and Military Police officers in Mityana District have today blocked the belated District Women’s Day Celebrations which had been organised by the Area Members of Parliament Hon. David Kalwanga of Busujju County and the District Woman MP Joyce Bagala. The legislators are members of the National Unity Platform (NUP). Police is […]