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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Justice Wilson Kwesiga has excused himself from a case in which Police Constable Davis Taremwa is accused of killing two people along the Entebbe expressway in 2019. Taremwa was in 2019 charged with two counts of murder over a shooting that claimed two lives of Joshua …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister for Labor Mwesigwa Rukutana has been acquitted of all charges stemming from a shooting incident in the just concluded campaigns. He was facing seven counts of attempted murder, threatening violence and malicious damage to property. Rukutana was arrested with three of his bodyguards from …

Kamuli, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kamuli police are investigating circumstances surrounding the murder of a renowned traditional healer. Forty-year-old, Wasswa Kayizi was stabbed to death inside his shrine at Butabaala village in Southern division in Kamuli district on Wednesday night. His lifeless body was covered with bruises and open wounds in …

Kagadi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police are holding two suspects in connection with the brutal killing of a woman in Kagadi district. The suspects whose particulars have been concealed for fear of jeopardizing police investigations were arrested over the weekend from various parts of Kagadi. The two suspects, one man …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 21 year old housemaid stands accused of committing murder and violent robbery. She is accused of murdering and robbing her employer, Phionah Tumusiime’s properties worth 12.6 million Shillings. Kahmiati Namaganda and others at large allegedly robbed Tumusiime’s two smartphones, three suitcases containing clothes, hair weaves, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The number of people killed by mob justice dropped in 2020. According to the report released on Monday, a total of 540 cases of murder by mob action were reported compared to 746 cases reported in 2019, giving a decrease of 27.6%. The report notes …

Kibaale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kibaale police are holding three suspects in connection to the brutal murder of a 68-year-old man. The suspects are Anatole Mugisa, Denis Tumwebaze and Joyce Kemirembe. Julius Hakiza, the Albertine Region Police spokesperson told Uganda Radio Network on Thursday that the suspects are believed to have …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A security guard has been arrested for allegedly shooting to death a boda boda rider at Equatorial Mall in Kampala on Monday night. The Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire identified the suspect as Morris Opedunu attached to Pinnacle Security Company, who was guarding …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Mbale is holding three people for the alleged murder of Daphne Malemo, a 64-year old resident of Busoba parish, Busoba sub county in Mbale district. According to Rogers Taitika, the Elgon region police spokesperson, the three whose names were not released so as …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The ongoing murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin who last year killed unarmed black man George Floyd underscores the issue of police reform, which U.S. President Joe Biden has said he wants to address. The full video of Floyd’s arrest played by prosecutors in …