Tag Archives: Luke Owoyesigyire

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police are hunting for a group of people who hurled petrol bombs at two motor vehicles in Kireka along the Kampala-Jinja highway. The first incident was reported by one Shafic Mubiru, who was driving a vehicle registration number UAJ 320S. He was attacked along the railway …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Five people suspected to have been involved in the raid on the residence of the late former Kampala Archbishop Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga have been arrested in an intelligence-led operation. According to police sources, the suspects were tracked down using the phone that was stolen …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Preliminary police findings into the fire that gutted a dormitory at King’s College Budo points to possible arson. On Tuesday morning, fire gutted Grace House, one of the girls’ dormitories at King’s College Budo, destroying student’s property worth millions of Shillings. The fire is said to …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Police have arrested the prime suspect in the murder of Isaac Mugga, the former Manager of Chilies Fast Foods and Takeaway Restaurant in Ntinda, a Kampala suburb. The suspect is Nelson Victor Ofwono alias Octopus. He was picked up from his hideout in Katooke …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Police has confirmed the death of one person knocked by a truck in Natete town on the outskirts of Kampala. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police Spokesperson ASP Luke Owoyesigyire identified  the deceased as Agnes Arinaitwe, a resident of Kasenge village in Wakiso district who was moving …

Kampala Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police have preferred charges of inciting violence against two leaders of the National Unity Platform who were arrested while leading a procession to parliament demanding to meet the Speaker Rebecca Kadaga. On Thursday, about 50 women including mothers and relatives of NUP suspects who …

Wakiso, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  A Uganda National Examinations Board – UNEB scout has collapsed and died while heading to scout the ongoing Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) examinations in Makindye Ssabagabo Municipality in Wakiso District Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire has identified the deceased as Ahmed …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  Two people have been knocked dead and three others injured when a police truck lost control and knocked several vehicles and motorcycles along the road in Nsambya, a suburb of Kampala. The Hino truck registration number UP 5638 failed to brake and rammed into …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  A Police Corporal is nursing wounds at Kiruddu Hospital in Kampala after he was shot by thugs during an operation on Wednesday.  Robert Ekakor and three other police officers were pursuing armed thugs in Makindye Luwafu when the thugs who were on a motorcycle …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Only 500 people will be allowed to attend the funeral ceremony of the late Archbishop of Kampala archdiocese Dr Cyprian Kizito Lwanga tomorrow, the Church has announced. According to Fr. Nicholas Mulumba, the head of communication at Kampala Archdiocese, a few people have been …