Tag Archives: Abbey Ngako

Jinja , Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Jinja Police are investigating the circumstances under, which unidentified people dropped leaflets and petrol bombs along different streets in Southern division on Tuesday afternoon.  The suspects who were dressed in hoods and masks are said to have dropped the leaflets and petrol bombs along …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Police in the Kiira region has arrested a 39- year old man for allegedly impersonating the Kiira Region Police Commander, Dauda Hiriga.  Gabriel Mukiibi, a resident of Wakitaka cell in Northern Division, Jinja City was arrested from his hideout in Wakitaka cell on Tuesday …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Police in Jinja city conducted a Monday night operation where they arrested 28 suspects, impounded 33 vehicles and 13 motorcycles as they enforced the ministry of health standard operating procedures-SOPs aimed controlling the spread of Covid-19. The suspects are currently detained at Jinja’s central police …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The Commander of Jinja Central Police Station, Ahmed Hasunira is being accused of assaulting Sophia Nnalongo, the polling agent of one of the former candidates in the Southern Division mayoral race at the Jinja City Tally center on Monday night.  According to Nnalongo, she was …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Baba FM radio station was on Thursday night switched off ahead of the declaration of results for the Jinja City Mayoral race. The station has consistently been updating  the public on the events that were transpiring at the tally centre since Wednesday, when polls were …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |   A security guard at Crested Crane Hotel in Jinja City has been shot dead.  The incident happened on Wednesday night at 9:30 pm at the hotel’s new site under construction located along Nalufenya Road.   The guard only identified as Mawa and attached to Hash …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Police in Jinja city has paraded 16 youth who are believed to be perpetrators of a variety of crimes including robbery and rape. Abbey Ngako, the Kiira region police spokesperson said the youthful gangsters are far more dangerous than they look and he described …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  35 year old Baligasima Wambi, a resident of Idogolo village in Northern division, Jinja city is suspected to have committed suicide by strangulation over accumulated debts from money lenders. The deceased’s lifeless body was retrieved behind his house, where it was hanging on a guava …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The National Unity Platform-NUP party Women coordinator in Jinja city, Manjeri Kyebakutika is accusing police of torturing her following her arrest on Sunday evening. Kyebakutika was picked up while journalists shortly after attending the Kyabazinga’s coronation anniversary at Igenge palace.    She was reportedly accused …

Jinja, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Police in Kiira region is hunting for Yasin Wandera, a private guard who allegedly battered his Seven-year-old son Halid Mwima, and broke his left thigh bone.  Mwima, a resident of Lwanda village in Northern division, Jinja city is currently nursing wounds at Jinja regional referral …