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 …
Read More »Police thwarts traders attempts to reopen arcades in Kampala
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 …
Read More »Police impound hundreds of boda bodas in COVID-19 operation
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 …
Read More »Police orders fresh investigations into Masaka cyclist’s death
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 …
Read More »Police forcefully takes CCTV footage showing killed Makerere student
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 …
Read More »Police, St Augustine chapel disagree over release of Tegu’s mob justice footage
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 …
Read More »Police returns impounded motorcycles to riders in Mbale
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 …
Read More »Police investigates brutal murder in Major General Kyaligonza’s farm
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Albertine police are investigating the brutal of murder of unidentified man on the farm of Major General Matayo Kyaligonza’s farm in Kikuube district. The deceased’s body was found by residents lying in a pool of blood on Kyaligonza’s farm in Kitindura village in Ruhunga parish …
Read More »10 arrested over Makerere student murder
Kampala, Uganda | Prossy Nansubuga | Police have arrested and detained 10 suspects in connection of the death of Emmanuel Tegu, a third year Makerere veterinary student who was killed in mob action on Sunday. The Kampala Police Metropolitan Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango says with the investigations that have intensified today, it …
Read More »Police deny LDUs killed Makerere University student at campus
Friends say Makerere student was respectful, humble preacher Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have denied reports that Local Defence Units (LDUs) clobbered a Makerere University student to death last week as they enforced the ongoing curfew. Police told URN that according to their information, Emmanuel Tegu, a third year …
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