LOCKDOWN PARTIALLY LIFTED, BUT CURFEW STILL IN PLACE

As you are all aware on the 30.07.2021, government eased the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, allowing the partial re-opening of selected businesses, sectors, movements, sporting activities etc.  This follows a reduction in the average daily cases of COVID-19, and the necessity to balance the various social and economic concerns.  Ideally, there are a lot of lessons […]

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Speak out on Sexual Gender Based Violence cases and Violence Against Children

Members of the public have been urged to speak up whenever they are facing sexual gender based Violence and violence cases against children. The call was made by D/SP Mugawe Rashida, the Deputy Sexual and Children Related Offences Department, (SGBV), CID Headquarters. During a community outreach programme organized by a local NGO YOUTH INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT […]

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POLICE ACTIVELY REVIEWING ALLEGATIONS IN THE BBC DOCUMENTARY

The Special Investigations Division of the Directorate of CID, is actively reviewing allegations contained in a mini-documentary by the BBC, surrounding acts of child trafficking and child sacrifice for ritualistic purposes that took place in 2011 but posted recently on various platforms. In the documentary, the journalist relies on the account of   a child survivor […]

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Police Officers Warned Against Corruption, Urged on Discipline

The Chief Political Commissar in the Uganda Police Force, AIGP Asan Kasingye, has urged officers in the Siipi Region to avoid any form of corruption but also keep off cases of indiscipline for a better service delivery to the public. AIGP Kasingye who is on a rectification and ideological orientation tour in the region sounded […]

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ONE HELD FOR POSSESSION OF PROHIBITED WILD LIFE SPECIES

David Kisitu, a suspect that has been on the run since December 2020, has been arrested on charges of possession of prohibited wildlife species.The arrest follows a police search mounted in December 2020 after intelligence reports indicated that the car in which he was travelling-UAG 419W, (Toyota Premio), from Bundibujjo had pieces of Ivory. The […]

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POLICE INVESTIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH HUMAN REMAINS WERE ABANDONED AT BURIAL SITE

The territorial Police in Mpigi is actively investigating circumstances under which human remains of 15 (fifteen) deceased persons, that were exhumed from Kyengera Town Council on the 8/02/2021, by Aisha Kwagala, and transferred for reburial in Busese  “A” village, Nkozi  sub-county in Mpigi district, were abandoned at the proposed burial ground at around 5:15pm, that […]

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POLICE WARNS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AND STIGMATIZATION OF PREGNANT GIRLS

Following the announcement by UNEB, allowing pregnant girls in candidate classes to register for their final exams, we would like to warn teachers, parents, fellow students and the public (including neighborhoods), against acts of discrimination and stigmatization of these pregnant girls. You are all aware the Covid-19 period has been burdensome for girls more than […]

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