Chaos erupted on Tuesday when a group of National Unity Platform supporters from Nansana municipality, escorting candidate Steven Kaweesi, held a procession along Bombo Road as they headed to NUP headquarters for registration.
Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Patrick Onyango confirmed the deployment, citing intelligence reports that some individuals were planning to march to Parliament.
Fire broke out on Tuesday at the supermarket in Busega's Kigwaanya Zone, Rubaga Division, Kampala, at around 7:30 pm, destroying the entire store and merchandise.
During questioning, Mutebi claimed to be a devout Catholic and a dobi (laundry worker), and insisted he did not know the shirt was associated with priests. “I got the shirt from someone who brought clothes for washing and gave it to me,” Mutebi said.
Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Patrick Onyango identified Ssali as the individual who allegedly hired four people to set the home of Kigundu Lawrence ablaze.
Sheikh Kakande's disappearance has raised concerns among his followers and the wider community. He is one of several Muslim leaders who have been arrested recently under unclear circumstances.
John Solomon Nabuyanda, one of the protesters, said the East African crude oil extraction contract that was signed between the Ugandan government and the oil company is marred with irregularities, the reason why it is hidden from the public.
Police have arrested two members of Torture Survivors Movement Uganda after dropping a coffin at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Kampala, while protesting the continued torture and killings of Ugandan migrant workers in the Middle East.
On Wednesday, armed security personnel in civilian clothes searched the offices of the National Economic Empowerment Dialogue located at Luthuli Avenue in Bugolobi, Kampala, and briefly detained Kabuleta’s workmates.
One student has lost close to two million shillings of tuition fees to a conman who promised to double it. A police officer says the university police have registered more than five incidents of fresh students being conned by unknown people either by pretending to help them with banking issues or by befriending them and later defrauded through job offer scams and other tricks.
One of the victims, aged eight, is said to have been lured by a neighbour who asked the minor to follow her, but later handed her to people who hijacked and later defiled the child. She was thereafter strangled and dumped along Church Road, where she was rescued by a police patrol and taken to Naguru Hospital.
The accident happened when a tractor registration number UBE 212H, which had a road roller and eight KCCA workers overturned in the middle of the roundabout. According to eyewitnesses the tractor that was coming from Bahai Road at a very high speed hit the pavement before overturning. Its roller compressed the workers on the ground.
According to preliminary police findings, a group of thugs raided houses in Kabusu where they smashed windows and tried to force their way inside the homes. Residents summoned their courage and decided to chase the thugs.
The 35-year-old Stephen Opio Epale met his death in the wee hours of Wednesday morning while guarding the construction site belonging to Ahmed Ssuna in Kelezia zone in Makindye division.
Other witnesses said that the infant was strangled by a frustrated Mother. Among these is Aisha Mabingo said the increasing cases of infanticides in slum areas these days is due to the irresponsible men who abandon them after giving them pregnancies.
According to eyewitnesses, People power youths attacked Sipapa who was driving a Super custom vehicle registration number UBE 229E and broke his windscreen prompting two men who were driving with him to fire in the air and shops.
The Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, says the taxis were previously operating from Old Taxi Park and were relocated to Usafi, Kisenyi, New Park to pave way for redevelopment.
According to Kakooza, he tried several times to recover his motorcycle from the police station but police officers kept on demanding for money. Kakooza alleges that he informed Fred Nyanzi, the brother of Robert Kyagulanyi, the People Power leader about his predicament, who promised to help and invited him for a meeting today.
Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Patrick Onyango says that the pursuit for the group started after a number of reports filed by persons whose motor vehicles were stolen over the last month.
The Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, says most of the motorcycles were impounded along Kampala–Jinja road, Northern bypass, and Bombo road in Wandegeya, city center and other parts of Wakiso areas.
