Security & Crime Investigation

The territorial Police in Mayuge District has arrested and detained a man over assaulting and torturing his sister-in-law for demanding for her baby that had been abducted by the suspect. According to the Uganda Police Spokesperson SCP Fred Enanga, the suspect arrested on December 13, 2022, is identified as Muzahamu Mulidho, a 27-year-old boda-boda operator from Mpirabira village, Butakube Sub-County in Mayuge District. Enanga said that Mulidho was apprehended after a video where he was recorded beating the victim went viral...

The Lira District LCV chairman Mr. Okello Orik has been missing for the last 17 days. According to sources at the district, the LCV chairperson was summoned and was supposed to appear in court yesterday the 6th December 2022, to answer to a defilement case but he did not show up to court. Mr. Bonny Omar, Okello’s assistant states that he last heard from his boss on 20th November 2022 when he was delegating a task to him. “He was sending...

Police in Fort-portal City and Kabarole district have so far arrested 12 suspects who are linked to the murder of an assistant medical officer from Kagadi that occurred in Fort Portal City. While addressing the weekly security presser on Monday the 5th December 2022, ASP Luke Oweyisigire the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson stated that Rutabagisha Paul Bahizi a 53-year-old District Health Officer at Kagadi district was killed on 25th November 2022. According to ASP Oweyisigire, Paul was from a workshop in...

Moses Simbwa, a resident of Jinja whose images have been flooding the media especially on social media with severe injuries on both his legs has raised several debates after revealing information emerges. Some social media users have argued that Simbwa’s appearance in Nairobi and being paraded by National Unity Platform (NUP) as a torture victim is a fabrication as many know him to be an accident victim. Faruk Kirunda, the Deputy Presidential Press Secretary, on 26th November 2022 tweeted, “They say...

Old Kampala hospital that was put in the limelight by Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago’s unfounded lies, has threatened legal action against Lukwago and his client Faisal Kabanda if an apology is not issued to the hospital. According to the hospital management, the lies that were spread through Lukwago’s Facebook page on 11th October 2022, and other news outlets, about an illegal harvest of Kabanda’s kidney by the hospital surgeon were unfounded and based on falsehoods. Old Kampala Hospital Spokesperson, Ashiraf Zziwa...

Today, Wednesday 23rd November 2022 at around 4am, a Police officer on duty foiled an attempted attack on Nakulabye Police station.  The Police station almost came under attack after an unidentified armed person approached the Police station from the western wing, but the Police officer on duty spotted him and acted first by discharging bullets at the assailant forcing the attacker to flee leaving behind an AK47 and a Magazine with five rounds of ammunition. The guard on duty called and...