Michael Lakony, the Amuru District LCV Chairperson, says there is an escalation of organized crimes such as livestock and motor vehicle thefts, human trafficking and smuggling among others at the Elegu border in Uganda and Nimule, the South Sudan side that threatens the peace of cross border community.
The East Kyoga Regional Police Spokesman, David Ongom Mudong, says Emorut has been charged with dealing in contraband items and will be produced in court after investigations.
He says the passengers and the owners of the motor vehicles impounded were charged and left to go on police bond but their motor vehicles will stay parked in the police yard of Central Police Station Mbarara.
He said that over one hundred people have been arrested by the Police assisted by the UPDF trying to cross through the different porous borders and put under Quarantine.
Dan Nkwasibye, a resident of Ketebere landing site in Kagadi district that borders DR Congo says no major efforts are being put in place in the area to curtail the possible outbreak of the disease despite the influx of Congolese in the area who are not screened.
