The police inKampalahave arrested 10 suspected thugs in Kisenyi, a Kampala Citysuburb. The Deputy Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba says that the suspects were found with iron bars, fake guns and keys the police suspects were being used to open peoples’ houses at night. Nabakooba says that the suspects would be paraded before journalists after investigations. […]
The Directorate of Ethics and Integrity is in final stages of drafting a bill that will allow individual Ugandans to sue corrupt government ministers, president among other public officials. The bill against the corrupt will be called ‘’quintum bill 2012.’ The bill will allow individual Ugandans to provide information and the Attorney General will be […]
Police have deployed over 5,000 troops in Kampala district to keep law and order during the ongoing three day traders strike. The strike started today across the country. The deployment follows intelligence information that members of opposition were reportedly planning to cause bodily harm to NRM supporters during the strike. Sources in Uganda police force […]
The Electoral Commission has discovered that some LCI executives forge commission’s appointment letters. The commission’s chairperson, Eng. Badru Kiggundu has asked the police to investigate all persons on LCI committees who forge the commission’s appointment letters. Kiggundu says that the commission has received information that in Makindye Division in Kampala, some people last week forged […]
Makerere University councilor to KCCA, Bernard Luyiga who had been rumoured to have crossed to NRM after the Lord Mayor of Kampala, Erias Lukwago declined to appoint him deputy mayor recently has described the allegations against him as baseless. Lukwago recently named Sulaiman Kidandala as the deputy mayor of Kampala declining to name Luyiga […]
The government of Uganda ’s failure to subsidize power to support power producers has impacted negatively on the businesses of Kampala ’s property mogul, Sudhiru Rupereria. The information coming from Equatorial Hotel and City house building among others indicate that many times the premises of the wealthy man can stay without power for very many […]
Members of Parliament on the public accounts committee of parliament have expressed concern that the picfare industries limited went ahead to supply 300,000 T-shirts worth 1.3 billion shillings to the Burundian government as part of scholastic materials. The government of Burundi authorized Uganda to pay the monies owed to Burundi to Picfare industries in turn […]
Police have warned drivers across the country of a new wave of car robberies as the year comes to an end. Police Chief Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura says that the police have unearthed information that car thieves are going to be in full swing during the Christmas season. Kayihura however says that the police have […]
It is like every staff at the Red Pepper made buying a new car by the end of the year his/her year’s final resolution. With a month and so weeks remaining to close the year 2011, most of the workers are busy selling off their old cars and rushing to acquire new ones. In the […]
Latest intelligence indicates that some ruminants of LRA rebels have started reorganizing themselves in an attempt of advancing towards Uganda this Christmas season. Security sources say that by Thursday last week, the Ugandan army got information that LRA rebels had sent spies to Nimule (an area located on the Sudan – Uganda boarder). In a […]