A leaked report of the parliamentary committee on Equal Opportunities has revealed widespread regional imbalance when it comes to appointments to public offices. Majority of the senior officers in public offices hail from Western Uganda, the report notes. The committee’s investigation into presidential appointees, was commissioned by the Speaker Rebecca Kadaga in September 2016, after […]
Police swung into action on Friday and stormed Nkumba University bringing all the work at the institution of higher learning to a stand still. The police stormed the university because over 100 opposition youth were attending a human rights dialogue at Nkumba University at the invitation of human rights network-Uganda (hurinet-u). The police force […]
Uganda and Rwanda have now formed a joint police force whose major purpose is to monitor and guard against negative forces entering Uganda or Rwanda from the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Sources say that the Uganda–Rwanda police force will help the two countries to share intelligence information. The police was formed during […]
Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala has asked the members of the police force to respect the uniform they put on and the civilians whose tax the government uses to buy policemen uniforms. Preaching in the morning mass at Rubaga Catholic Cathedral in Kampala today, the cardinal told the policemen to respect the constitution of Uganda, other […]
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 […]
Ugandans for the first time will be allowed to share housing units with Uganda police force officers after redevelopment of Nsambya, Kibuli and Naguru police barracks. The Projects Manager of Uganda police Jim Mugunga have confirmed the development and said that the housing units to be shared have been built by police in partnership […]
The Uganda police force is set to start growing its own food due to high cost of food across the country. We have heard that the inspector general of police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura has instructed the force’s director for research, Julius Sharita to find land on which all police officers and men will be […]
The police force has deployed over 1,000 traffic police officers on various highways in the country. Talking to the media in Kampala, the commissioner of police in charge of traffic and road safety, Steven Kasiima said that they have beefed at deployment on the roads following the increasing road accidents during this Christmas season. Kasiima […]