Three prison warders in Koboko arrested over missing guns

Koboko, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Three warders of Lobule Government Prison in Koboko district have been arrested following the disappearance of three guns and 90 rounds of ammunition. 

Corporal Chief 3 Khan, Corporal Johnson Atiku and Corporal Zebedee Zakayo were arrested on Thursday by a team of security personnel led by the District Police Commander Koboko Samuel Abwang.

According to reports obtained from detectives in West Nile, one gun was signed by Atiku in January and has never been returned while the two other guns all AK-47 disappeared from the Armory, which was managed by Zakayo. 

Abwang, says that the two guns belonged to Prisons while one belonged to the Uganda Police.

He says that during the investigations, it was established that there was no sign of a break-in suggesting that the three warders are aware of the whereabouts of the guns and should be held responsible.  

However Jolly Robert Bamutura the Regional Prisons Commander West Nile contradicted the version of the police. He explains that unknown people still at large broke into the armory of the prisons and stole the guns.

Following the arrest and detention of the three warders, the commissioner General Uganda Prisons has appointed Ismail Adam Onzima and two others to take charge of Lobule prisons as investigations and search for the guns continues.

********

URN