By Brian Kisembo on January 16, 2019
AIGP, Andrew Felix, CP Fred Enanga, Emillian Kayima, former IGP Kale Kayihura
Featured, Latest Uganda News
CP Fred Enanga has on Wednesday been handed his office by the outgoing Police Spokesperson Emilian Kayima. The Inspector General of Police Mr Okoth Ochola announced the changes on January 12 asserting that Kayima is dropped to the post of office of Political Commissar. Commissioner of Police Fred Enanga will be deputized by SSP Polly […]
By Isaac Senabulya on July 12, 2016
Airlifting, businessmen, Fighting, South Sudan, Ugandans
Business news, Regional, Security
The minister for Trade and Industry Amelia Kyambadde says that government is considering Airlifting Ugandans from South Sudan following the latest conflict that has left nearly 272 people killed, including Ugandans. Kyambadde says that government is consulting South Sudan to find a way of rescuing Ugandans from the renewed fighting in this country which has claimed […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on June 1, 2016
General, Latest Uganda News
Five terror suspects, who were earlier acquitted by Kampala High Court, have been re-charged with terrorism and related conspiracies at the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Jinja. According to a police statement, which forms basis of the charge, the suspects Omar Awadhi Omar,Muhammad Hamid Suleiman alas Abu Zainab, Abibaker Batemtyo, Dr. Ismail Kalule and Yaya Suleiman […]
By Lucy Kiconco on May 13, 2016
detention, FDC party, Fred Enanga, Kizza Besigye, Moroto District, Sam Nangilo
Latest Uganda News, Politics & Governance
Uganda police transferred by plane, Forum for Democratic Change’s (FDC) Dr Kizza Besigye to a detention facility in the northern district of Moroto, over 400 kilometers from Kampala where he was arrested. Besigye was arrested after he escaped a ’24-hour’ security surveillance at his Kasangati home in Wakiso District. He unexpectedly emerged in the city’s […]
By Isaac Senabulya on February 11, 2016
CDs, Film industry, government
Art, Business & Economics, Business news, Finance, Latest Uganda News
Government is to establish a CD manufacturing factory to help the film industry growth. This was revealed by the RegIstrar General Bemanya Twebaze while meeting the film makers at the National Theatre in Kampala. The project is to cost 3.5 million dollars. Bemanya says that this factory will cut the cost of filmmaking and enable film […]
By Isaac Senabulya on February 10, 2016
Arrests, council of police chiefs, Killer gand, Police, Terrorismn
Latest Uganda News, Security
Police has arrested members of a gang believed to have been terrorizing people in greater Kampala. The gang specializes in contract killing as well as armed robbery. Police spokesperson Fred Enanga says that in the subsequent operations, they have been able to apprehend 11 of the Gang members and recovered a gun and 110 rounds of […]
By Isaac Senabulya on January 26, 2016
director of public prosecutions, Police, Saudi Arabia, trafficking, Ugandan girls
Health, Latest Uganda News, Security
Police has transferred to the Director of public prosecutions six case files of suspects alleged to be trafficking Ugandan girls to Saudi Arabia. Currently police is holding Halima Abdullah who is said to be running supreme security agency, one of the companies that export labor. The police spokesperson Fred Enanga said that this group has been […]
By Walakira on July 24, 2014
Latest Uganda News
The Police and its sister security agencies have boosted security in the Western districts of Kasese, Bundibugyo and Ntoroko following the terrorist threats there. Kasese, Bundibugyo and Ntoroko comprises the Mountain Rwenzori National Park has significant Safari attractions that draw an increase in the number of visitors in the area. Police spokesman Fred […]
By Walakira on June 25, 2014
Latest Uganda News
The Report by the UN office of the higher commissioner for human rights shows that out of the 909 complaints received by the office, from January 2012 to December 2013, 590 were against security agencies, with the police of Uganda topping the charts with 287 complaints. The complaints against the Uganda police include torture, […]
By Walakira on June 25, 2014
Latest Uganda News
Police spokesperson Fred Enanga has defended police after human rights activists asked him to explain the reason police officers kill suspects, torture suspects and receive bribes from suspects. Enanga was speaking at the public dialogue by the Uganda Human Rights Commission on the implementation of the Anti-Torture Act 2012 at Hotel Africana; in Kampala. […]