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Emilian Kayima hands over office to CP Fred Enanga

Emilian Kayima hands over office to CP Fred Enanga

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 […]

Government considering airlifting Ugandans from South Sudan

Government considering airlifting Ugandans from South Sudan

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 […]

2010 Bomb suspects in fresh terrorism charges

2010 Bomb suspects in fresh terrorism charges

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 […]

Opposition Leader Kizza Besigye Secretly Detained in Moroto

Opposition Leader Kizza Besigye Secretly Detained in Moroto

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 […]

Government to open CD manufacturing factory

Government to open CD manufacturing factory

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 […]

Police arrest members of terror gang

Police arrest members of terror gang

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 […]

Police continue investigating trafficking of Ugandan girls to Saudi Arabia

Police continue investigating trafficking of Ugandan girls to Saudi Arabia

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 […]

Uganda police begs tourists to resume visits

  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 […]

Police explains why it detains suspects beyond 48 hours

  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, […]

Police explains why it tortures suspects

  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. […]