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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Arua has cautioned public transport operators against failure to observe the Standard Operating Procedures- SOPs and COVID-19 preventive guidelines following the resumption of public transport in the area. On Friday, the Ministry of Health lifted the ban on public transport in Arua, three …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Soroti are holding a man who claims to be a Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces-UPDF Captain attached to the Chieftaincy of Military intelligence (CMI) for conning residents. Captain Iddi Moses Okello was picked up from his residence at Oderai trading center in Soroti …

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 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Teargas and live bullets hovered over parts of Kamwokya, a suburb of Kampala as police battled supporters of People Power, a pressure group led by Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu. The crowds were mobilized by aspirants from various constituencies mainly around Kampala who …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Police have fired teargas and live bullets to disperse hundreds of traders in downtown Kampala who had reopened shops this morning, despite their continued closure by the government.   Arcades have remained closed since March 2020, when the government first announced a lockdown to contain the …

    Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have impounded over 200 motorcycles and arrested their riders in Kampala Metropolitan areas for violating presidential directives stopping them from carrying passengers as part of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) preventive measures. The Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, says most of …

Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Director of Operations Uganda Police Edward Ochom has ordered for fresh investigations into the death of a Boda Boda Cyclist in Masaka. Hussein Walugembe, walked into a traffic office at Masaka Central Police Station on July 2 and doused himself with petrol claiming that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police overpowered St Augustine Chaplain, Fr Joseph Ddungu to forcefully take the Closed Circuit Television –CCTV footage showing events that resulted in the death of a Makerere University veterinary student Emmanuel Tegu. The student was allegedly attacked by a mob that mistook him for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a disagreement between police and Fr. Josephat Ddungu, the Chaplain of St. Augustine Chapel in Makerere University over the release of CCTV footage showing how Emmanuel Tegu, a former veterinary student was clobbered. Tegu was reportedly clobbered by a mob near Lumumba …

Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Mbale has started handing back the motorcycles to riders that were impounded for flouting the Covid-19 presidential directives. Over 300 motorcycles were impounded and kept at Mbale central police station since the lockdown started in March this year. Most of the riders …