Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire

Kiira Road Police has arrested four suspects on allegation of impersonation as Police Officers and demanded money from complainants and suspects in the guise of helping them to get a bond.

The arrested were identified as Habasa Rogers, 34 years, Atwine Eddy 25 years, Obura Ambrose 35yrs and Oketch Oswald Asbert, who are charged of impersonation and imitation as police officers.

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Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire has confirmed the incident and said the suspects are detained at different Police stations in Kampala.

On their arrest the suspect were found with exhibits they had obtained from the public summing up to 4,700,000

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There is an apparent war within Uganda opposition parties with some sharp allegations to the effect that some member parties like the Democratic Party (DP) have allied with the National Resistance Movement (NRM).

However the spokesperson of DP, Kenneth Paul Kakande clears that there is no such alliance between DP and NRM. There is no resolution of the National Executive Committee of DP mandating anybody in DP to work NRM for any political reasons.

He says that if there are any individual or group of persons doing it, they are doing it in their personal capacity and the party wishes to state that it will investigate these unfortunate and callous turn of events and such people, if any will be dealt with according to DP laws.

There also seems to be a deliberate effort to depict a war of words between FDC and DP leaders. Kakande says that the DP is not in business of attacking other opposition leaders and members. Kakande says that DP believes that the people in FDC are their friends and the party sees them as allies in the fight against Museveni’s leadership. He challenges FDC and all other opposition parties to concentrate their fire on the liberation struggle.

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Their vehicles were recently shattered during the recent demonstrations, but the police and the government in general doesn’t want opposition leaders to walk on foot or use public means while visiting markets, courts, places of workshop… Some of the opposition leaders like Kenneth Paul Kakande (the spokesperson of the Democratic Party) have no cars because they were stolen, damaged in demonstrations or seized by the police. Kakande says that the government has impoverished them.

They don’t have the money to repair their cars but whenever they move on foot the police arrests them and whenever they drive their cars the police arrests them that mechanically dangerous conditioned cars.

For example in Kampala today, the police arrested FDC women league leader Ingrid Turinawe and Kampala woman MP Nagayi Sempala as they were walking to Court in a procession from their homes. The opposition leader Col. Kiiza Besigye describes the charges police charges opposition leaders as politically motivated arguing that the Government does not have evidence to sustain them in court.

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Members of opposition Forum for Democratic Change have spent the whole of today in shock after the state preferred murder charges against their supporters arrested yesterday. The spokesperson of police, Judith Nabakooba says that FDC supporters are in detention over the killing of a policeman John Bosco Ariongo.

Some of the FDC supporters facing murder charges include Henry Kavuma, and George Kaija. Other FDC supporters face charges of holding unlawful assembly and disobeying lawful orders while they were with Col. Kiiza Besigye.

Late Ariongo was hit by a stone on his forehead by a suspected rioter and died as he was being taken to the hospital. The suspects in their statements have denied having had a hand in the death of Ariongo. Nabakooba says that more FDC supporters are to be arrested after investigations are complete.

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The coordinator of A4C, Mathias Mpuuga has told journalists that the police told them that it cancelled the rally due to security reasons.

Our reporters in the area report that   there is heavy deployment in Katwe and the nearby areas. The spokesperson of police Asuman Mugyenyi says that they have intelligence information that some elements of opposition leaders were planning to use the rally to disrupt peace.

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Nabakooba says that the suspects would be paraded before journalists after investigations. She says that the suspects were arrested after a tip off from one of the concerned residents.

Nabakooba also urged the members of the public with information about the activities of iron bar men and thugs to forward it to police for action. She says that the police will keep such information as a highly confidential information because it is aware of its sensitivity.

Hundreds of people in Kampala and its suburbs have been attacked by thugs in a period of less than six months and their property worth millions of shillings stolen.

By Stephen Kamoga

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Nampijja and her family were reportedly attacked by her ex-husband towards Sunday midnight at Kitebi zone in Rubaga Division,Kampala.

The husband in question has also been arrested by police but he is still admitted at Mulago hospital because he attempted to committee suicide.

Deputy Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba says the man is yet to record a statement. The police have already recorded statements of various people who heard cries of help from Nampijja and family.

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The denial follows A4C’s pronouncement this week at their Katonga road headquarters in Kampala that they had launched a fresh move to walk to work again as a means of holding the Government accountable by holding rallies nationwide beginning with the one in Makindye west constituency.

The Police spokesperson Asuman Mugyenyi says the IGP wants the force to be informed as the normal procedure ahead of time if any proposed demonstration is to take place so that there is sufficient security to the organizers.

He also says the Police are ready to work in cooperation with anyone who wants to exercise their constitutional rights without any hindrance.

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National Housing Corporation is currently involved in a land dispute with local residents of Namungona over proper land ownership.

Ibin Senkumbi the Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson says the employees illegally arrested and locked up Isaac Lubega and Godfrey Kasekende in their offices.

They later beat them up and severely injured the duo accusing them of inciting residents not to vacate the land.

Lubega later died on arrival at Mulago hospital while Kasekende is still undergoing treatment for injuries sustained. Another resident Isaac Nsubuga was reportedly shot on the head by a guard of the same company.

Senkumbi says investigations into the incident are still going on.

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The spokesperson of Makerere College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology, Better Kyakuwa tells this reporter that the pads they have made are of good quality and that the Uganda National Bureau of Standards has already certified the quality.

The mak pads have been made in two types: One for bed time (when a woman has just delivered). The one for bed time are large. The second type is general pads. Kyakuwa says the pads are on the market and many of the customers have confirmed their goodness.

Although the Mak pads were launched recently, Kyakuwa says that they have officially distributed them to most shops in Kampala business centre today.

By James Okello

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