Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Police Force-UPF has announced plans to pull down all campaign banners and billboards obstructing security cameras in Kampala and Wakiso districts. Information from the security camera monitoring centres in Kampala and Wakiso districts shows that some political aspirants and candidates have obstructed the …
Read More »IGP orders CID to investigate MP Simeo Nsubuga for threatening to kill
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector-General of Police [IGP] Martin Okoth Ochola has directed the Criminal Investigation Department [CID] to investigate Kassanda South MP Simeo Nsubuga for threatening to kill someone over politics. This follows audio which has been circulating on various media platforms, Nsubuga who recently lost …
Read More »Air travelers exempted from curfew restrictions
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Entebbe Deputy Resident District Commissioner Njuki Mbabali says that incoming and outgoing passengers will be exempted from night curfew restrictions if their flights fall within the curfew hours. Uganda maintains a nighttime curfew running from 9 pm to 5:30 a. m, as one of the …
Read More »CCTV footage lands Bobi Wine’s bodyguards in deeper trouble
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda police Force-UPF has sanctioned four charges against two body guards of Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu aka Bobwine who have been detained at Wandegeya police station since Friday. Although police arrested them basing on ‘only’ one offence of assaulting police officers on duty, force …
Read More »Makerere University fire: Two security officers arrested
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two security officers who were on night duty at Makerere University main building on Sunday have been detained over negligence of duty when the fire broke out. A dressing journalists at Uganda Media Center, police spokesperson Fred Enanga said that preliminary findings indicated that …
Read More »Boda boda arrested for attempted suicide Kireka police station
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A boda-boda rider is nursing wounds at Kiruddu hospital after setting himself on fire at Kireka police station in Wakiso district following a failed attempt to recover his impounded motorcycle. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga said that Emmanuel Kabanda tried to end his life by setting …
Read More »Police to recruit another 5,000 police officers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have kicked off the recruitment exercise of another 5,000 probation police constables to beef up its force strength, currently standing at about 50,000. According to police, the new 5000 officers form part of the required 10,000 officers whose recruitment was launched in the 2019 …
Read More »Police to recruit another 5,000 police officers
Rubanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have kicked off the recruitment exercise of another 5,000 probation police constables to beef up its force strength, currently standing at about 50,000. According to police, the new 5000 officers form part of the required 10,000 officers whose recruitment was launched in the 2019 …
Read More »Police maps out 15 hotspots ahead of NRM primaries
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police has listed 15 places perceived as hotspots in Friday’s National Resistance Movement- NRM party primaries. Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson says that much focus and vigilance will be put in the hotly contested areas to avoid clashes between supporters of rival candidates. He named …
Read More »Arcades flouting Covid-19 directives named
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Joint Security Taskforce on Covid-19 has today named 25 shopping complexes in Kampala that are not following the directives issued by the government to limit the spread of coronavirus. Police Spokesman Fred Enanga named the culprits that now face sanctioning as Nansamba Arcade, …
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