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Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Causality and emergency healthcare service providers have expressed concern over the continued transportation of accident victims on police patrol vehicles, stating that it complicates the management of patients. Dr. Alfonse Omona, a General Surgeon who currently heads the Accidents and Emergency Department at Masaka …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ivan Wabwire, a Police officer who is accused of killing an Indian money lender in Kampala has been sent to prison. Wabwire appeared before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning, on charges of murder. The Court has heard that on May …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has approved the Traffic and Road Safety (Amendment) Bill, 2023 which will among others provide for a speed limit in the Act to ease the control of speed limit through the express penalty scheme. As passed, a person who fails to comply with …

Muromba whose gun was used by Wabwire has been dismissed from the Police Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police Constable Ivan Wabwire acted with his full conscious when shooting an Indian money lender, Uttam Bhandari, last Friday afternoon according to police surgeons. Bhandari was the Director of TFS Financial …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police Flying Squad has arrested Constable Ivan Wabwire accused of shooting to death an Indian money lender. Wabwire was captured by Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) on Friday shooting and killing Uttam Bhandari after seemingly developing an argument with him. The Flying Squad successfully worked …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police Constable Ivan Wabwire who shot and killed a money lender was mentally ill, according to the Uganda Police. Wabwire killed Uttam Bhandari on Friday inside Rajja Chambers along Parliament Avenue in Kampala. Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, says that Wabwire was …

Kampala, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT | Investigators suggest they are handling a case of a cool-headed, steel nerved professional killer who assassinated the well known vlogger Ibrahim Tusubira alias Isma Olaxes aka Jjaja Ichuli near the victim’s suburban home in Kampala on Saturday night. Police Closed Circuit Television –CCTV teams …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police preliminary report about Christians who were repatriated from Kenya early this week indicates that the group was conned and later abandoned by their Church leaders in Nakuru. The group of 101 people that left their homes on Sunday was heading to Ethiopia to …

Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Mukono have released on bond Moses Kasiita, a resident of Ntaawo in Mukono Municipality, Mukono District, who had been in police custody for 13 days on accusations of having sexual intercourse with another man. Kasiita was arrested on April 22, 2023, and …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Territorial Police in Aswa Region and Pader district have put out teams to find and arrest former MP Odonga Otto and a group of vigilantes after they were captured on video, viciously beating three victims, who had gone to buy charcoal in northern …