A self-confessed criminal from Lira town, Joseph Omoo alias Ajep, has died inside Luzira Prisons. Tobias Ebong Ocha, the North Kyoga Regional Prison Commander says Ajep died from Luzira Prisons Sick Bay over the weekend where he was admitted for multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis TB.
An inmate who escaped from Luzira prisons in July last year has been re-arrested. Moses Nuwagaba was serving was serving a 65-year sentence for rape and aggravated robbery. Niwagaba’s run out nine months after the daring escape from Luzira Upper Prisons. He was re-arrested last week in Bushenyi at his mother’s house in an operation led by the police and prisons officers from Nyamushakyana Prisons.