Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Rubaga Grade One Magistrate, Joel Wegoye has remanded 135 suspects to Luzira prison for alleged possession of narcotics. The suspects who included both male and female appeared before court on Monday afternoon. The suspects, who appeared before the court in shifts, were charged …
Read More »Battered reuters journalist seeks UGX 100M compensation
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | James Akena, a photo journalist with Reuters has dragged the Attorney General to court seeking damages because of torture by the military. Akena was battered by UPDF soldier down town Kampala on August 20, 2018 while covering protests. He appeared in a photo, which went …
Read More »Experts analyzing suicide note from Fairway hotel room by India national
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Handwriting experts in the police forensic directorate are analyzing the purported suicide note left by Indian national, Vikrant Sangir who is said to have committed suicide at Fairway hotel last Friday. Sangir’s lifeless body was found hanging on a rope in room 2204 at …
Read More »Minister Kibuule’s domestic workers released on police bond
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have released the four suspects arrested after the death of Minister Ronald Kibuule’s children, who drowned in a swimming pool at his home in Mbalala, Mukono District. Deputy Kampala Metropolitan police spokesman Luke Owoyesigyire confirmed that the four domestic workers at the minister’s …
Read More »Body of missing IHK doctor retrieved from septic tank
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Cathy Agaba, the missing doctor of International Hospital Kampala-IHK has been found dead. Agaba’s body was retrieved this afternoon from a septic tank at her rented premises in Muyenga, in Kampala. The Deputy Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, says Agaba’s body was recovered following …
Read More »Thugs attempt to rob Barclays bank -Nakulabye
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Old Kampala Police station is investigating an attempted robbery planned by yet to be known people at Barclays Bank, Nakulabye Branch. It is alleged that the two security guards at the Bank dragged by unknown persons who then tried to break into the Bank …
Read More »Woman arrested for plotting husband’s murder
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Bulaga Police Post is holding a woman alleged to have been caught in the process of hiring assassins to kill her husband. The woman identified as Jane Najjuuko, 29, was arrested yesterday after the people she contacted to murder her husband turned out to be …
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