KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Unconfirmed reports indicate that former Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) Spokesperson Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Charles Twine is missing. Twine was reportedly summoned on Tuesday night to face the Inspector General of Police, Abas Byakagaba and his deputy James Ochaya for yet to be …
Read More »‘Police hand over former CID spokesperson Charles Twine to SFC’
According to his colleagues, Twine was driven by SFC soldiers to unknown destination and his vehicle still remains parked at Naguru police headquarters and his known telephone contacts have since gone off. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Reports indicate that former Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) Spokesperson Assistant Superintendent of …
Read More »Police arrest six masterminds of Kampala-Mityana highway robberies
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police Flying Squad Unit has arrested six suspected masterminds of highway robberies along Kampala-Mityana road. Charles Twine, the Spokesperson of the Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID has identified the suspects as Ibrahim Ssemuwemba, a resident of Busega Rubaga division in Kampala, Ignatius Lwassampijja, a resident of …
Read More »CID grills Saudi businessman over missing Ugandan domestic worker
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Saudi businessman, Majed Al-Abass has failed to explain the whereabouts of his Ugandan maid Martha Apio. The businessman told anti-human trafficking detectives at CID headquarters in Kibuli that he does not know where Apio, whom he employed in 2018 as a domestic worker is. The …
Read More »CID recovers UGX 11.6Bn stolen from teachers fund
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate -CID has recovered another 7.8 Billion Shillings in the ongoing probe of mass embezzlement that hit the teachers revolving fund. President Yoweri Museveni pledged and ordered for release of Shillings 25 billion purposely to improve primary school teachers welfare. It was later …
Read More »Forensic analysis rules out police, UPDF guns in Kyengera shooting incident
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A forensic analysis to identify which guns were used to kill a Kyengera mobile money agent Dezilanta Nabasiyre, has revealed that none of the five guns belonged to the police and army. Nabasirye died in a morning scuffle at Kyengera town council, along Masaka road when …
Read More »Parents conned UGX 1Bn in school fees scam
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID has arrested a woman suspected to be the ringleader of fraudsters who reportedly defrauded parents more than one Billion Shillings in a school fees scam. Charles Twine, the CID spokesperson identified the suspect as Edith Nasoozi, a teacher and a resident of …
Read More »Security agencies, immigration probe organ transplant rackets
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A joint team of investigators from various security agencies and immigration is probing the increasing claims of Ugandan domestic workers whose internal organs have illegally been removed. The police team is comprised of detectives from the forensic department, Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID), Interpol, while others …
Read More »Woman arrested with 90 heroin pellets at Entebbe Airport
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Anti-Narcotic Police Unit at Entebbe International Airport is holding a 29-year-old woman on charges of drug trafficking from Uganda to India. Charles Twine, the Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID spokesperson has identified the suspect as Carol Birungi, who was found with 90 pellets of heroin drugs, …
Read More »CID cautions bigwigs against defying criminal summons
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate is concerned over the increasing failure by bigwigs to comply with criminal summons. CID spokesperson Charles Twine says that many people especially those holding public offices are increasingly dodging summons even when they are delivered to them, their personal assistants or their …
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