The multi-million shillings government analytical laboratory in Mbale is not actively utilised nearly one year after it was launched. The Mbale analytical laboratory which is among the three regional analytical laboratories was launched in October last year by the Justice Law and order sector (JLOS) to carryout genetic analysis. At the time if its launch […]
Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) launched the 13th annual human rights report highlighting a decline in acts of human rights violation compared to previous years but still pins the police force for leading in violating the rights. The report cites a 1.5% increase in complaints received in the year 2010 compared to2009 with the commission registering 979 complaints compared […]
Bukedde television correspondent from Entebbe Kigongo Ssebalamu has been assaulted for covering a village meeting that police was addressing without securing its clearance. Bukedde television is part of the vision group a company with which government owns majority shares. Ssebalamu was arrested on 20th/June/2011 at 5:30pm at a village meeting to which he had been […]
Uganda police is to sit and discuss with the Director of Sudan National Police lieutenant Gen. Hashim Asuman on the status of the 12th council of police chiefs due 19th -20th October. The public relations officer of Uganda Police, Judith Nabakoba says the two forces have covered resolution like Trans-boarder and transnational crimes. The council […]
The western region police commander Kwanya Wilson has challenged the police force to live an exemplary life in the fighting against HIV/AIDS. Kwanya says that the Ugandan government trains police officers to be change agents in the society. He appeals to officers to fight temptations that lead them to acquire AIDS citing prostitutes, poverty and […]
Police have urged Kampala Capital City Authority to make bi-laws making them lawful to enforce security checks in public places. Security checks became a common sight in all public places shortly after the July 11 bombing in Kampala Rugby club and Ethiopian village in Kabalagala. But close to a year after the tragic incident in […]
Members of parliament have appealed to police to investigate a case in which a 70 year old man who was showed on bukedde TV Tuesday having committed defilement on a six years old girl. Speaking to journalists at parliament the member of parliament for kigulu south Milton Muwuma expressed fear that if police doesn’t expedite this case well, […]
The Police in Kampala fired teargas and coloured chemicals at opposition leaders and supporters to disperse a procession that was going to an opposition organised rally in Nsambya grounds. The rally that had been organized by Free Uganda Now pressure group by opposition political parties Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), Democratic Party (DP) and Social Democratic Party […]
The leading opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change has criticised police reports that the party’s leaders are being targeted by al-Shabaab target. This followed police issuing a warning to leaders of opposition political parties of what they say are specific threats by the Somalia-based al-Shabaab terrorists to assassinate Uganda opposition leaders. The FDC spokesman Wafula […]
Ugandan journalists have slapped a boycott on government activities over the 14 journalists who were physically attacked while covering the return of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Dr. Kiiza Besigye. More than a dozen of journalists have been physically attacked including being shot, intimidated, arbitrarily arrested and detained, restrictions imposed on their […]