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Abavubuka mwenyigire mu bulimi - Kabaka awadde amagezi:

 

8th December, 2014

 

By Dickson Kulumba ne Paddy Bukenya

 

Kabaka ng’awuubira ku bantu be ku mbuga y’eggombolola y’e Buwama mu ssaza ly’e Mawokota e Mpigi ku Lwomukaaga ku mikolo gy’Abavubuka mu Buganda.

 

KABAKA Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II alagidde abavubuka okwongera okwegatta 

beenyigire mu bulimi nga balima ebirime eby’ettunzi okusobola okwekulaakulanya.

Omutanda ng’ali ku mikolo gy’abavubuka mu Buganda ku mbuga y’eggombolola y’e Buwama mu ssaza lya Mawokota mu disitulikiti y’e Mpigi ku Lwomukaaga, yawadde abavubuka amagezi okukozesa ebifo ku masaza ne ku magombolola okukolerako emirimu egy’enjawulo egy’enkulaakulana

n’asiima abatandiseewo emirimu ne bayambako n’abalala okwebeezaawo.

 

 

Ente Omubaka Kenneth Kiyingi Bbosa (Mawokota South) gye yatonedde 

Ssaabasajja ku Lwomukaaga. 

 

Kabaka alagidde abavubuka okwekebeza Kabaka yakubirizza abavubuka okwekuuma:

 

“Omwaka guno tujjukiziddwa ensonga y’ebyobulamu. Abavubuka tusaanye okwekuuma nga tuli balamu, okwekebeza buli mwaka kubanga si kirungi okugenda mu ddwaaliro nga tumaze okugonda ate omuvubuka alina okulya obulungi.”

 

Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga yakunze abavubuka okukozesa emikisa Kabaka gy’abatee

reddewo; mu by’obulimi beekwate BUCADEF n’okuyingira Ssuubiryo Zambogo SACCO.

 

Omulamwa gwabadde; Omuvubuka omulamu ate nga mukozi ye nnamuziga w’enku

laakulana mu Buganda, era wano Minisita w’abavubuka e Mmengo, Henry Ssekabembe, we yategeerezza nga bammemba ba Ssuubiryo Zambogo SACCO bwe batuuse ku 1,500 nga kati balinawo n’obukadde 285.

 

Abamu ku Baamasaza ku mukolo gw’Abavubuka mu Buganda e Mawokota ku Lwomukaaga.

 

Omukolo gwetabyeko; ssentebe w’abavubuka mu Buganda, Richard Kabanda, Kayima David Ssekyeru, Katikkiro eyawummula Dan Mulika, sipiika wa Buganda Nelson Kawalya n’omumyuka we Ahmed Lwasa, Minisita Amelia Kyambadde, Omubaka Kenneth Kiyingi Bbosa (Mawokota South) ssaako baminisita b’e Mmengo, abakulu b’ebika n’Abaamasaza.

Abayimbi; Mathias Walukagga ne Fred Ssebbale be baasanyusiza abantu ba Kabaka.

The first bank in The Ganda Kingdom:

By Henry Lubega
 

Posted  Sunday,1 st March,  2015 

  

Before 1906, there was no banking institution in Uganda until November of the same year when the national Bank of India opened its first branch in Entebbe, and four years later it opened the first bank in Kampala, although it was later taken up to become Grindlys Bank.

The National Bank of India was followed by Standard Bank of South Africa Limited when on September 19, 1912, it opened its first branch in Kampala. And a few years later it opened another branch in Jinja.

Barclays

Barclays followed in 1927 when it opened two branches in Kampala and Jinja. In 1954 three more banks; Bank of Baroda, Bank of India and The Nedelandsche Handel-Maatschappij M.V (Netherlands Trading Society) opened in Uganda.

According to Saben’s commercial directory and handbook of Uganda, as early as 1949 the banking system had been established in Uganda but did not control much of the financial liquidity that was in circulation across the board in the country.

“Much of the money was controlled in the bazaars and other channels which were predominantly controlled by people of the Asian origin. These people played a key role in the buying of cotton.

However, areas where banks were non-existent, merchants in those areas played the part of the banks. This was through taking drafts in exchange for cash or physical items in exchange for hard cash,” Saben wrote.

By 1950, it was realised that to bring more Africans into the business there was need to provide them with credit. Unfortunately, the commercial banks at the time would not extend credit to Africans because of the nature of their securities.

Under Ordinance number 20 of 1950 the Uganda Credit and Saving Bank was created purposely to extend credit facilities to Africans with the aim of furthering agriculture, commercial building and co-operative society purposes.

On October 2, 1950, the bank was opened and by 1961 it had spread to places like Arua, Fort Portal, Jinja, Soroti, Gulu, Masaka and Mbale, taking only African deposits.

Building Society

Two years later, the first Building Society in Uganda was opened as a subsidiary of a Kenyan owned firm Savings and Loans Society Limited. 

More financial institutions continued to open up in Uganda with Lombard Bank from Kenya, in partnership with Uganda Development Corporation, opening the Lombank Uganda Limited in 1958. It was this bank which first introduced the hire purchase system of shopping in Uganda.

It was not until 1966 that through an act of Parliament that Bank of Uganda was created. Prior to this, issues to do with money were handled by the East African currency board which had its head offices in Kenya.

OMUZIRO:NKIMA

AKABBIRO

KAMUKUUKU

LU.

OMUTAKA

MUGEMA.

OBUTAKA

BBIRA.

ESSAZA

BUSIRO.

OMUBALA:

 Talya nkima

senya enku

twokye ennyama. Mugema bwafa tutekako mulala

OMUZIRO

NKULA.

 

KABBIRO

Obutiko bwa Nakasogolero.

 

OMUTAKA

MUWANGI.

 

OBUTAKA

LWENTUNGA

 

ESSAZA

BUDDU.

 

OMUBALA:

WANKULA SSEJJEMBE LIMU TAKYUKA

 

Obuvunanyizibwa ku kivundu ekiri e Muyenga:
Kampala, Uganda.
 
Posted 22 March,  2015
 
By Kizito Musoke
 
Amazzi g’omwala
(omugga) gw’e Nakivubo mu bitundu by’e Bukasa, mu kiseera kino maddugavu bwe zzigizzigi. 
 

MINISITA omubeezi avunaanyizibwa ku butonde bw’ensi, Flavia Munaaba Nabugere, agenze buku¬birire e Muyenga awali ekivundu ekisaanikidde ekitundu n’atuula n’abakulembeze b’ekitundu ne bayisa amateeka amakakali aga¬naayamba okunogera ekizibu kino eddagala.

Olukiiko luno olwatudde ku Muyenga Community Hall, ku Lwokuna lwetabiddwaamu n’abakungu okuva mu bitongole nga KCCA, National Water n’ekya NEMA, ekivunaanyizibwa ku kukuuma obutonde bw’ensi.

Olukiiko lwakubiriziddwa, Yasin Omar, ssentebe wa LC 1, owa Muyenga Hill. Minisita yennyamidde olw’ebitongole bya gavu¬menti eby’enjawulo okuba nga biremeddwa okukolera awamu okulwanyisa abantu abazimba mu ntobazzi.

Yanenyezza KCCA okuwa abantu pulaani z’okuzimba mu ntobazzi. Minisitule y’ebyettaka y’efulumya ebyapa ku ttaka ly’entobazzi ate ekitongole kya NEMA kiwa abazimba ebbaluwa ezibakkiriza okuzimba mu nto¬bazzi kuno gattako ekitongole ky’amazzi ekya National Water, ekitafuddeeyo ku kukuuma ettaka eririna okulekebwayo nga tonanatuuka ku mazzi.

Abakulembeze ba LC okuva mu bitundu by’e Bugoloobi ne Bukasa ebisinze okukosebwa baategee¬zezza minisita nti wadde bulijjo embeera ebadde mbi, mu kiseera kino olw’okuba ng’omusana gwase nnyo, beesanze ng’amazzi tegakyasobola kutambuza bikyafu ebitambulira mu mwala ekivundu ne kyeyongera.

Ssentebe Yasin yagambye nti, baasazeewo okutandika kaweefube w’okuggya abantu mu ntobazzi gavumenti enaatandikira awo. Kaweefube waabwe ono baamutuumye ‘Bukasa - Bu¬goloobi Wetland Relocation.’

AMATEEKA GE BAAYISIZZA

1 Bannannyini mayumba agali mu ntobazzi bagenda kutandika okuwa omutemwa buli mwezi era ssente ze banaasonda, gavumenti kw’egenda okwongereza okugulira abatuuze bano ekifo ekirala gye banaasengukira.

2 Abakulembeze bagenda kukola ebikwekweto nju ku nju , nga bafuuza buli mutuuze alage kaabuyonjo ye. Abanaasangibwa nga tebalina, bagenda kuweebwa ebibonerezo omuli n’okugobwa ku kyalo.

3 Abalimira mu lutobazzi, balagiddwa okukuulayo ebirime byabwe mu bwangu.

4 Abazimba amayumba nga tegasussa ffuuti 200 okuva ku nnyanja, bayimirizibwe. Ate abazimba nga tebasussa mmita 100 okuva ku mwala gwa Nakivubo bayimirizibwe.

5 Aba LC tebagenda kuddamu kuteeka mukono ku ndagaano yonna egula mu ntobazzi. Ebyapa by’abo abaagula mu ntobazzi, minisita alabe nga bisazibwamu.

6 Minisita yalagidde ekitongole kya KCCA okuteekawo olusalosalo olwawula ekitundu ekitakkirizibwa kukoleramu kintu kyonna n’abantu kye bakkirizibwa okusengamu.

Minisita yagambye nti amateeka gano singa tegassibwa mu nkola, eggwanga lyolekedde okufuuka eddungu kubanga mu kiseera kino ennyanja evunze, nga yeetaaga okutaasa mu bwangu okusinziira ku mbeera y’omugga gw’e Nakivubo nga bwe guli. Kibi nyo okutabula amazzi amabi namalungi awamu.

Uganda has all these sorts of problems because a foreign President does not want to leave power in Uganda:
 
This vicious African dictator has sold Kalangala fresh water Lake island to the dictatorship of North Korea for his selfish motives:
 

 

20 February, 2021
 
By Semujju Nganda
 
"The moment you have a president who doesn't want to leave, you will only have the army to protect you"
 
"When you have a president who doesn't want to leave power and his last resort is the military, I don't know how many apologies you're going to make. Even next week you'll make one "
 
"The moment UPDF turned itself into a regime protection force, there is no turning back.
You will even end up shooting yourselves"
 
"Why don't you apologise about the killings in the November riots" he asked Deo Akiiki
 
Deo Akiiki, to Ssemujju, what have you done as their representatives? Semujju  replies, So you want me to come and arrest you ?
 
"We only have 2 options. Either collectively, including NRM, force Museveni out of power or plead with him to do what is expected. There are no shortcuts. You cannot force the population to love you"
 
The bodies of about 10 youths have been found beheaded in Nakitutuli forest  about 3 kms along Kayunga road in Mukono North Constituency, Kampala, Uganda. 22/02/2021
 
 
"When you see them beating journalists, then you know the worst is to come. What was problematic about yesterday is that they were beating journalists as journalists recorded it "
 
"There's absolutely nothing different between you and other armies that this country has seen. If anything, you are worse. You are the ones abducting people and you are justifying it"
 
"You arrest people for political issues and charge them with military offences in army court martial  and keep them there for months "
 
"How does a small matter like journalists following Robert Kyagulanyi turn into a military operation? 
 
"You killed people and said that they are stray bullets, as if they were raining from heaven. The person who killed people in Kasese was promoted.  Akiki’s have assigned themselves a hard job"
 
"Army has no business with civilians Your army is everything. It's the court,  police, and judge. You arrest civilians, and align them in court martial. You are worse than previous armies. An army headed by person with a Master in laws? Shame"
 
"The reason we pick you from society and train you is because we are entrusting you with our power. The guns you hold are ours. The moment you turn those guns on us, you are no different from other criminals "
 
"The UPDF went to Kampala defacing all opposition candidates campaign posters and it is the same army saying we are nonpartisan, don't bring us into politics.
who is bringing you? you are bringing yourselves." 
 
"You are not the  first Army " hits to Deo of updf 
 
 
Why should national elections in Africa turn into this loss of life
 
"There are No shortcuts to these things, you are not going to shoot people into loving you."
 
"You went to Somalia in 2007 to train their army, why are you still there up to date"
 
 
 
 
 
 

Nambooze afunye obutakkaanya n'obulabirizi bw'e Mukono lwa kulengezza Bp. Ssebaggala

Bya  Henry Nsubuga

 

Added 11th October 2020

 

Embeera esajjuse wakati w’omubaka wa munisipaali y’e Mukono Betty Nambooze Bakireke n’obulabirizi bw’e Mukono.

 

Nambooze ng'ayogera eri abavubuka ba People Power e Mukono ku NUP.

Nambooze ng'ayogera eri abavubuka ba People Power e Mukono ku NUP.

 
Entabwe eva ku mubaka Nambooze okwogera ebigambo ekkanisa by'erumiriza nti bya kalebule ate nga birengezza omulabirizi James William Ssebaggala ne pulojekiti z'obulabirizi okuli amasomero.

Nambooze ng'ayogera eri abamu ku beesimbyewo ku kkaadi ya NUP ku woofiisi z'ekibiina e Mukono gye buvuddeko yalaga ng'omulabirizi Ssebaggala bwe yeekobaana ne meeya w'ekibuga Mukono ne baggala essomero lya Bishop Central ne balekawo erya Bishop West mu ngeri gy'agamba nti yalimu amawunjukira.

Nambooze ng'ayogera eri abavubuka ba People Power e Mukono ku NUP.

Omubaka agattako nti bano tebaakoma okwo ate n'ensimbi ezisasula abasomesa oluvannyuma lw'okujja essomero lya Bishop West mu gavumenti ekkanisa n'ery'eddiza ne lifuuka lya bwannanyini nti kati bazikwatira kabbo mu kkanisa ng'agamba nti essaawa yonna lyakuggalawo ng'ensimbi eziriddukanya zibuze olwo ettaka balyegabanye mbu kuba baatandika dda n'okulitemamu ppoloti.

Mu lukiiko lw'amawulire obulabirizi bwe lwatuuzizza ku Lwomukaaga ku woofiisi z'obulabiriz nga lwakulembeddwa omuwandiisi w'obulabirizi, Rev. Canon John Ssebudde ne lwetabamu munnamateeka w'obulabirizi, Ronald Musoke ssaako ow'amawulire w'obulabiriz Derrick Kaddu, bano baalaze obutali bumativu olw'omubaka Nambooze okugufuula omugano bulijjo okulengezzanga omulabirizi mu ngeri ez'enjawulo.

Okuva ku kkono, Provost Kagodo, omuwandiisi w'obulabirizi Ssebudde ne munnamateeka Musoke mu lukungaana lw'obulabirizi.

Ssebudde yalaze okunyolwa olw'okulaba ng'omubaka Nambooze atuuka ku ssa ery'obutawa mulabirizi kitiibwa n'okumujolonga mu ngeri eyenkanidde awo.

Ono yakulembeddemu ab'amawulire n'abalambuza amasomero gano okuli erya Bishop East ne Bishop West agaasigalawo n'alaga engeri gye basobodde okugakuuma nga gali ku mutindo ngha kati gayisiza n'abaana mu ddaala erisooka ekyali kitakyaliwo.

Ekimu ku kitundu ku ttaka ly'essomero Nambooze ly'alumiriza nti ekkanisa yalikutulamu poloti nga kati batandise n'okulisenda babeeko bye balikolerako.

Ye Provost wa Lutikko ya Firipo ne Ndereya Rev. Canon Enos Kagodo Kitto yasabye omubaka Nambooze okulaga abantu by'akoze okusinga ate okudda ku kkanisa n'omulabirizi ayogere kalebule n'okutyoboola ekikola obubi ennyo.

Munnamateeka w'obulabirizi, Musoke yategeezezza nti wadde nga baabadde balabye nga tekyetaagisa kudda mu mubaka Nambooze olw'ebyo bye yayogedde wabula bwe byatandise okusasaanyizibwa ku mikutu gy'amawulire egy'enjawulo ne bibaako be byakoze obubi olwo kwe kusalawo bamwanukule.

Nambooze ng'ayogera eri abavubuka ba People Power e Mukono ku NUP.

Musoke yagambye nti ssinga teyeekomeko n'agenda mu maaso n'ebigambo bye bimu, olwo baakulowooza ku ky'okukumuba mu mbuga z'amateeka olwo gasobole okubamutasaako.

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Omubaka obanga abawayiriza abasibeko amatu gembuzi aliise abekanisa ye Mukono engo kunsonga zettaka, musale amagezi, mugaane okumulonda nate okugenda mu Parliamenti. Obulokole bwe kkanisa ya Uganda bwasimbuka nyo e Mukono ne Namutamba. Kwegamba omulimu gwo kubulira enjiri gutuuse okulekebwa bannakyewa bagukole. Anti square miles 75 eze ttaka ezaweebwa ekkanisa yobu Christayo bwa Uganda wano e Buganda, lyonna limaze okutundibwa!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laba obukodyo bw'obadde tomanyi mu kutendeka aba Local Defence Units mu byalo bya Buganda:

By Moses Nsubuga

 

Added 22nd December 2019

 

Laba obukodyo bw'obadde tomanyi mu kutendeka aba LDU

 

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Pulezidenti Museveni ng'alambula ennyiriri z'abasirikale ba LDU e Kaweeweeta
 

 

 

 

 

 

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Era kisanidde okuyigiriza obukodyo bwonna okutaasa obumenyi bwamateeka obuyinze wano e Buganda. Kubanga eriyo bangi abagala okuddayo munsiko nemubibira bya Buganda ne Uganda okuttingana, okusobola okununula nate ensi ya Buganda ne Uganda. Naye ensi Buganda nga ekibiina kya DP yetamwa dda entalo enfu. Ekisanidde wano e Buganda kwekwebalama ebyokulonda kwa Uganda ebifuuse eby'ensimbi ate nga sibyabwenkanya. Era ebyokulonda kwa Uganda biringa ebirimu nokulondera kumudumu gwemundu, tear gas nekiboko. Ensi Buganda nga yefuga 1962, ebikyamu bino byebyo byenyini bajajja byebalabula ensi ya Bungereza nga erekulira obuyinza.

 

 

 

 

 

Uganda, Kampala, Kkamera ziraze eyabbye emmotoka e Mulago:

By Musasi wa Bukedde

 

Added 13th December 2019

 

Eno face nga emanyiddwa nyo mukibuga kye Kampala. Singa no, ono munaffe bamuteekako sente okumuwayo!

 

 

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EbIfaananyi by’omusajja eyabbye emmotoka ya Rusoke (mu katono ku kkono) ebyakwatiddwa kkamera ya poliisi.

 

Kkamera y’e Mulago  eyakutte omubbi ono yalaze nga yabadde ayambadde essweeta emmyuufu, empale eya jjiini nga ya bbululu n’engatto enzirugavu. 

 

Mmotoka gye yabbye ya Micheal Rusoke ow’e Nansana ey’ekika kya Premio  nnamba  UAT 369D gye yabadde asimbye ku mabbali g’ekikomera  okumpi n’omulyango omunene oguyingira e Mulago okumpi n’ekitongole ekikola ku kujjanjaba abalwadde ba kkookolo e Mulago.

Rusoke  yagambye nti yazze ku ddwaaliro ku ssaawa nga 2:00  ez’oku makya ng’aleese  mulamu we, Jemimah Mutegeki  mu kifo we bajjanjabira kkookolo.  “Nakomyewo ku ssaawa nga 6:30 ez’emisana ne

nsimba mmotoka mu kifo kye kimu. Omubbi ono wano we yasoose okwagala okubbira emmotoka  kyokka n’alemererwa kubanga nayanguye okudda nga bantumye eddagala.

Navuze  emmotoka ne hhenda okukima eddagala  ne nkomawo ku  ssaawa nga 7:30 ez’emisana ne nsimba emmotoka mu kifo kye kimu ne nziraamu okuyingira eddwaaliro.

Mu ddwaaliro namazeeyo essaawa ng’emu ne nkomawo n’omulwadde wabula nagenze okutuuka we nasimbye mmotoka nga teriiwo.

Nabuuzizza ku babbooda abali ku siteegi eriraanyeewo nga bagamba nti tebamulabye.

Nagguddewo omusango gw’obubbi ku poliisi ya CPS ku fayiro nnamba 26/02/10/2019.

Poliisi yaggyeko ebifaananyi ebyakubiddwa  kkamera  ebiri ku nnamba CRB /197 /2019 Mulago  nga biraga omusajja ono bakira eyeetalira mu miti egiriraanye eddwaaliro nga yeefudde akuba essimu  nga yeetalira ku mmotoka eno  okutuusa 

lwe yagimenye n’ayingira. Kkamera zaasoose kumulaga ng’agyegezaamu okugibba wabula n’alengera Rusoke ne yeebuzaabuza n’agivaako.

Kkamera era zaalaze nga bwe yavuze  emmotoka okuva e Mulago  n’ayingira  oluguudo  lwa Mawanda Road nga wano we yabulidde.

Patrick Onyango omwogezi wa poliisi mu Kampala yagambye  nti bakyakola okunoonyereza okuzuula omubbi ono n’asaba abamumanyi okukolagana ne poliisi okugiwa ebimukwatako.

 

 

 

 

 

The Katikkiro of the Kingdom of Buganda has finally come out to criticize the Central Government of Uganda for using Uganda Army brutal force on the people of this country:

By James Kabengwa

 

8th November, 2019  

 

Handshakes. Buganda Kingdom Katikkiro Charles Peter Mayiga (right), greets guests shortly after a meeting at Bulange, Mengo in Kampala on Tuesday. PHOTO BY JAMES KABENGWA 

“Those who are behind such behaviour, time is coming for them to answer. They will have to account. What goes around comes around. Times change, things change,” Mr Mayiga said while addressing students from Buddu County at Bulange in Mengo, Kampala, on Tuesday.
He said the high-handedness and escalation of brutality by people in power is not only setting a bad example to the young generation but also damaging the country’s reputation.

The students donated Shs21m to the kingdom.
Mr Mayiga cited two of former President Amin’s top men, Ali Fadur and Abdul Nasur, who he said were untouchable with a lot of power during their reign but they have now aged and are dying in despair and regret.
“To the young generation, violent acts and murders are wrong. You should never emulate such behaviour,” Mr Mayiga warned.

 

This is a local leader who was seeing it all coming but has been keeping quiet in the hope perhaps that such human artrocities will go away!

 

He said when he visited Bulemezi some years ago, Abdul Nasur went before him almost kneeling.
“He was very powerful and ruthless, forcing people to swallow rubber slippers during his time and there is also Ali Fadur, living a desperate life in Mukono [District], sometimes going without food. They were untouchables but are no more,” Mr Mayiga said.

The Katikkiro criticised the police violence against four time Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate Kizza Besigye in the Monday incident where he was nearly thrown on the ground by high pressure water cannons and tear gas. His car was damaged under the command of Rashid Agero.

Agero has a long history of brutality against people. One time he pointed a gun at former Democratic Party president Ssebaana Kizito, now deceased.
Mr Mayiga said if by bad luck Besigye had hit his head on the ground and died in the circumstances, the country would have plunged into chaos.

 

He also condemned the beating of journalists and Makerere University students by police.
He said such perpetrators might be free now but they will have to answer for their crimes against humanity at one point in future.

“What harm can a non-armed journalist cause to armed policemen? A journalist with mere pens and cameras. Why would such people be treated like wild animals? They only relay brutal actions of security men,” Mr Mayiga said.
He said the kingdom was worried about violence witnessed in universities especially Makerere and other places of higher education.

“There is no longer communication in higher institutions of learning, no dialogue. The solution is bullets, thumps and tear gas and this is where we send our children,” he added.
He criticised the act of security agents breaking into female dormitories and pulling out girls deep in the night.

He said students are nursing wounds with some maimed asking which kind of nation “are we building when the youngsters are treated with violence?”
He criticised leaders who alleged last week that running battles between Makerere students and security were a result of drug abuse and pay off from Opposition leaders.

“Such words coming out of an adult? Did all students conspire to take drugs at the same time? What must looked into is the 15 per cent fees increment amid a biting economy,” Mr Mayiga said.

editorial@ug.nationmedia.com

 

 

 

 

 

Wano  e Buganda, eyaduumira abaakubye abayizi b'e Makerere bamuggalidde:

By Musasi wa Bukedde

 

Added 3rd November 2019

 

EBYOKUKUBA abayizi b’e Makerere ne bannamawulire biranze abakulira amagye bwe bakutte Capt. Ronald Lubeera, eyaduumira abajaasi abaasindikibwa e Makerere.

 

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Abaana ba University ye Makerere nga badduka abasirukale abakambwe enyo.

 

Yakwatiddwa n’aggalirwa mu nkambi y’amagye e Makindye oluvannyuma lwa Pulezidenti Museveni okulagira amagye agaasindikibwa e Makerere gaggyibweyo.

 

Obutambi obwakwatibwa mu bubba, bwalaga abajaasi ba miritale nga batulugunya abayizi n’okubakuba emiggo.

Bino, byabaddewo wiiki ewedde ng’abayizi b’e Makerere beekalakaasa nga bawakanya abakulira ettendekero okwongeza ebisale ebitundu 15 ku 100 buli mwaka.

 

Omwogezi wa UPDF, Brig. Richard Karemire yagambye nti, Lubeera yakwatiddwa oluvannyuma lw’okufuna okwemulugunya nti waliwo abajaasi abaasiiwuuse empisa ne bakuba abayizi.

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Kibi nyo era sikyabugunjufu oba obuntubulamu ab'Africa okugenda nga bametta kubanabwe emisango egyokumenya amateeka nebatekebwa nemubitabo ate bwebatwalibwa mu kkooti za mateeka kisangibwa nga tewali musango gwabumenyi bwamateeka gwebazizza. Ate nga nabamu kubakungu abaseesa mu enku mumuliro ogwomuze guno omubi nabo edda bayita mukumenya mateeka okutuuka webali nga bo ate kakati bali waggulu wa matteeka.

 

Oyo gwe bayita propaganda mululimi oluzungu. Muluganda kikyanonyezebwa. Mpozzi omuntu yenna ategeera ayinza kukifananyiriza Omufuusa. Asobola okukulaga obunyonyi nga buva munkufiira emyufu gyaba ayambadde. Ate buba bubuuka ate nabusikayo nabufuula amagi. Kibi nyo nti abaana abali mukutawaana okusoma Police namagye gabateeseko criminal record embi enyo. Mumaaso eyo nga banoonya emirimu kijja kubeera kizibu okufuna emirimu nga abandyagade okubakozesa babatya. Simunsi eno yokka eya Uganda naye nemunsi endala zonna. Okukwata omukungu eyakulembede banne nebagenda mu University nebakuba abaana nokubatekako emisango tekisangulawo misango abaana bano gyebalina kakano okuwoza. Ate oluvanyuma Omulamuzi namala okuwulira emisango gino ate nabawa ekibonerezo.

 

 

 

 

 

President Museveni owa Uganda, yewadeyo okulwanyisa obumenyi bwamateeka obusimbye ejjembe mu ggwanga:

Awadde Sabiiti amyuka omuduumizi wa polisi ekiragiro ku batta abantu, kubanga bwanalwanyisa obumenyi bwamateeka buno aja kuwangula ekisanja ekijja ekye 2021:

By Musasi wa Bukedde

 

Added 15th October 2019

 

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Presidenti Museveni nga akyaliko Addis Ababa mu Ethiopia

 

PULEZIDENTI Museveni awadde amyuka omuduumizi wa poliisi mu ggwanga, Maj. Gen. Sabiiti Muzeeyi, ennaku bbiri aveeyo n’enkola ennambulukufu okulwanyisa abatta abantu.

Muzeeyi y’amyuka Martins Okoth Ochola.

 

Museveni mu kiragiro kino yatageezezza nti awulira yeetamiddwa abatemu be yayise ‘embizzi’ abatta abantu nga bakozesa ebijambiya n’emitayimbwa olwo ne balyoka babakolako obunyazi obw’enjawulo.

 

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Amyuka omuduumizi wa Police Maj. Gen Sabiiti Muzeyi munamagye.

 

Bino we bijjidde nga ku Mmande abatemu baateeze omusuubuzi Joseph Baguma ku maka ge e Kisubi ku lw’e Ntebe ne bamutemaatema ssaako okubba ssente ezisoba mu bukadde 100.

Era ku Lwomukaaga lwa wiiki ewedde, abatemu baayingiridde omugagga mu bitundu by’e Garuga ne bamutemula.

Ku lunaku lwe lumu abakubi b’obutayimbwa baataayizza omuserikale Joshua Tusingire akulira okunoonyereza ku buzzi bw’emisango ku CPS ne bamukuba ne bamuleka ng’ataawa.

Museveni yategeezezza nti yabadde akyali mu kibuga Addis Ababa ekya Ethiopia naye bw’anaakomawo ajja kusooka kuyita mu pulaani ya Sabiiti olwo bw’anakkaanya nayo ajanjulire eggwanga abantu bonna bamanye engeri gy’agenda okulwanyisaamu ettemu lino.

Omuduumizi wa Poliisi Martins Okoth Ochola tali mu ggwanga ng’aliko olukuhhaana lwe yagendamu e Peru.

Mu kiwandiiko Museveni kye yatadde ku mukutu gwe ogwa Facebook ng’abuulira abazzukulu ne Bannayuganda bonna, yategeezezza nti abatemu bangu nnyo okutuula ku nfeete n’awera nti baakufaafagana nabo okulaba ng’abantu babeera mu ggwanga mu mirembe.

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Okutta abantu sikyekibi kyokka naye ebibi bingi omwaana womuntu byakola ebiletera ensi eno okuggwamu amanyi nti Omutonzi alabika nga file ya Uganda alinako wagyelabidemu. Ebibi birimu nokunyaga sente zomuwi womusolo nomala nozitwalira abasumba ba Katonda(Zakayo omuwooza). Eriyo ekibi kyokulimba bantu bano, okubanyigiriza, okubatwala nga bo abatali kitonde kya Mutonzi, newankubade nga bakola ebasiyagi, banyazi, bamalaya. Eriyo ekibi ssemabi ekikulu enyo ekyobutayagala baliranwa bo ate ne Yakutonda, kubanga Katonda kwagala era abeera mu kwagala abeera alabye Omutonzi we.Guno mukutu gw'amawulire wamu n'okukubaganya ebirowoozo ku nsonga ez'enjawulo. Weewale okuwemula , okuvuma n'okuvvoola.

 

Obumenyi bwamateeka bwo buyitiridde mubatuuze ba Uganda. Kyelalikiriza buli alina keyekoledde okuzukuka nga kibwatukira nga byonna byewekorede bigenze. Obuzibu nga buno bukomyewo nga abayimbi bwebayimba kubanga 1975-86 Abaganda bangi nyo bwebabonabona nobubbi nobunyazi nga bakabira abanyazi nti Twala ebintu naye banaffe mutulekere obulamu. Wapi. Essamba gere, empi, okusiba obundoya, bamaama okubasobyako, nokubayisaamu essassi byeyongera bweyongezi. Kyali kibi nyo. Era abo abanyumirwa entalo muggwanga bantu bakyamu nyo.

 

 

 

 

 

In Uganda, a police commander suffered the fate of a victim of robbery with the increasing crime in the country:

By Andrew Bagala of the Monitor, Uganda

 

14 October, 2019

 Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire 

Detective Assistant Superintendent of Police Joshua Tusingwire was attacked as he was jogging in the morning in Mutungo, Nakawa Division, Kampala.

The criminals also robbed him of his mobile phones.
Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire said the officer was responding well to the treatment. “He is undergoing treatment and doctors say he is out of danger. Efforts to arrest the suspects are still ongoing,” Mr Owoyesigyire said yesterday.
Mr Tusingwire is said to have suffered serious injuries. Violent crime in the city and its suburbs continues to rise despite several interventions including deployment of Local Defence Unit personnel and installation of CCTV cameras on the roads.

Crime rate
Recently, five robbers attacked Assistant Superintendent of Police Dennis Kasibante at his home in Nansana Municipality prompting him to shoot two of them dead.
On Thursday, seven people armed with machetes and house-breaking implements attacked Allan Mwesigwa’s home in Bwebajja in Kajjansi Town Council, Wakiso District and robbed him of electronic appliances.
Police later arrested suspects and recovered two guns after a search at their homes.

A similar incident happened in Kisasa Village, Wakiso Sub-county in Wakiso, where six robbers, including a woman, armed with machetes attacked MACKS Investments, a textile and maize processing factory last week.
The suspects disarmed the security guard, Godfrey Rwabwoma before stealing Shs1.5 million, computers and other items.
Buloba Police Station officers responded and shot Joseph Tamale, one of the suspects, and arrested him.
Two weeks ago, two gunmen riding a motorcycle, shot dead Hussein Mutyaba, 25, who was pursuing them after they robbed two Mobile Money agents in Nakabugo Village, Bulaga Parish, Wakiso District.
abagala@ug.nationmedia.com

 

 

 

 

 

Obumenyi bwamateeka mu by-elections eza democracy ezigenda mumaaso mu Uganda:

 

By World Media

 

27 September, 2019

By all means the National Resistance Movement has won Hoima, Kaabong by-elections:

In Kaabong, NRM's Christine Tubo Nakwang comfortably beat FDC's Judith Nalibe Adyaka.

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NRM's Christine Tubo Nakwang cast her ballot Thursday morning. She was headed for victory. (Photo credit: Electoral Commission)

 

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The National Resistance Movement (NRM) has emerged victorious in the Hoima and Kaabong by-elections for the district Woman MP seats.

In Hoima, NRM's Harriet Businge beat FDC's Asinansi Nyakato by over 4,000 votes.

In a close race, Businge garnered 33,301 votes against Nyakato's 28,789 votes.

The overall results were announced by Hoima Electoral District returning officer Douglas Matsiko early Friday, who declared Businge the newly-elected district Woman representative to Parliament.

The Hoima seat fell vacant after MP Tophace Kaahwa Byagira opted to represent the newly-created Kikuube district.

Hoima has two counties, one municipality, 17 sub-counties and 69 parishes. The election was conducted at 266 polling stations.

Meanwhile, the Kaabong contest was also a two-way race, with NRM's Christine Tubo Nakwang eventually comfortably beating FDC's Judith Nalibe Adyaka.

Nakwang got 22,532 votes while her challenger Adyaka polled 1,692.

Julius Ongom Ogwang, the returning officer for Kaabong Electoral District, declared Nakwang the newly-elected Kaabong district Woman MP Friday morning.

A total of 40,248 voters were registered for this by-election.

The Kaabong seat fell vacant following the relocation of the area MP Rose Akello to the newly created district of Karenga that came into effect on July 1, 2019.

On Thursday, Kaabong voters also elected their chairpersons and councillors to fill vacancies existing in various local government councils.

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Observations: 'Level of vigilance was high'

 
By Crispin Kaheru - CCEDU coordinator

 

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Today Friday, September 27, 2019 at 03:30am, NRM candidate for the Hoima District Woman MP by-election, Businge Harriet, was announced winner in an election that pitted her against Opposition-backed Nyakato Asinansi (FDC).  

According to the Electoral Commission, Businge secured 33,301 votes and Nyakato obtained 28,789 votes.  Voter turnout was about 43% (comparatively high for a by-election).

Whereas the Opposition parties and formations benefited a great deal from uniting behind a single candidate, the NRM leveraged its access to (and use of) state resources, including government vehicles and public officers to campaign for, and get the NRM candidate announced as winner in the Hoima District Woman MP by-election.

 The few observers exchange notes as the election went on anyhow


There is a likelihood that allegations and realities of occurrences, such as circulation of pre-ticked ballot papers in favour of the NRM candidate (on polling day), arrests of agents from the Opposition parties (for whichever reason) and the partisan involvement of some security agents to the point of attempting to subvert the will of the people in some areas within Hoima, affected the election and how it later turned out to be. 

It is possible that these issues could in future be brought up to query the credibility of the Hoima District Woman MP by-election.
 
The level of vigilance was high in this election.  In fact, candidates’ agents, supporters and ordinary citizens played a key role in exposing some of the issues that afflicted the election.
 
Not withstanding the incidents, polling day was generally calm in Hoima Municipality although with a few spots of tension.  People generally came out to exercise their right to vote.

We will share with you a detailed report from the Hoima District Woman MP by-election.

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Mugabe an African leader from Zimbabwe, who was a liberator but gradually turned oppressor:

 

He has died aged 94 years still in need of wanting to rule his country:

September 6, 2019

Written by VOA

RIP: Robert Mugabe

RIP: Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero and champion of racial reconciliation when he first came to power in a nation divided by nearly a century of white colonial rule.

 

Nearly four decades later, many at home and abroad denounced him as a power-obsessed autocrat willing to unleash death squads, rig elections and trash the economy in the relentless pursuit of control.

Mugabe, was ultimately ousted by his own armed forces in November 2017. He demonstrated his tenacity — some might say stubbornness — to the last, refusing to accept his expulsion from his own ZANU-PF party and clinging on for a week until parliament started to impeach him after the de facto coup.

 

His resignation triggered wild celebrations across the country of 13 million. For Mugabe, it was an “unconstitutional and humiliating” act of betrayal by his party and people, and left him a broken man.

Confined for the remaining years of his life between Singapore where he was receiving medical treatment and his sprawling “Blue Roof” mansion in Harare, an ailing Mugabe could only observe from afar the political stage where he once strode tall. He was bitter to the end over the manner of his exit.

On the eve of the July 2018 election, the first without him, he told reporters he would vote for the opposition, something unthinkable only a few months before.

Took power in 1980

Educated and urbane, Mugabe took power in 1980 after seven years of a liberation bush war and — until the army’s takeover — was the only leader Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, knew since independence from Britain.

But as the economy imploded starting from 2000 and his mental and physical health waned, Mugabe found fewer people to trust as he seemingly smoothed a path to succession for his wife, Grace, four decades his junior and known to her critics as “Gucci Grace” for her reputed fondness for luxury shopping.

“It’s the end of a very painful and sad chapter in the history of a young nation, in which a dictator, as he became old, surrendered his court to a gang of thieves around his wife,” Chris Mutsvangwa, leader of Zimbabwe’s influential liberation war veterans, told Reuters after Mugabe’s removal.

‘A jewel’

Born on Feb. 21, 1924, on a Roman Catholic mission near Harare, Mugabe was educated by Jesuit priests and worked as a primary school teacher before going to South Africa’s University of Fort Hare, then a breeding ground for African nationalism.

Returning to then-Rhodesia in 1960, he entered politics but was jailed for a decade four years later for opposing white rule.

When his infant son died of malaria in Ghana in 1966, Mugabe was denied parole to attend the funeral, a decision by the government of white-minority leader Ian Smith that historians say played a part in explaining Mugabe’s subsequent bitterness.

After his release, he rose to the top of the powerful Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, known as the “thinking man’s guerrilla” on account of his seven degrees, three of them earned behind bars.

Later, as he crushed his political enemies, he boasted of another qualification: “a degree in violence.”

After the war ended in 1980, Mugabe was elected the nation’s first black prime minister.

“You have inherited a jewel in Africa. Don’t tarnish it,” Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere told him during the independence celebrations in Harare.

At first, reconciliation

Initially, Mugabe offered forgiveness and reconciliation to old foreign and domestic adversaries, including Smith, who remained on his farm and continued to receive a government pension.

In his early years, he presided over a booming economy, spending money on roads and dams and expanding schooling for black Zimbabweans as part of a wholesale dismantling of the racial discrimination of colonial days.

With black and white tension easing, by the mid-1980s many whites who had fled to Britain or South Africa, then still under the yoke of apartheid, were trying to come home.

No challengers

But it was not long before Mugabe began to suppress challengers, including liberation war rival Joshua Nkomo.

Faced with a revolt in the mid-1980s in the western province of Matabeleland that he blamed on Nkomo, Mugabe sent in North Korean-trained army units, provoking an international outcry over alleged atrocities against civilians.

Human rights groups say 20,000 people died, most of them from the minority Ndebele tribe from which Nkomo’s partisans were largely drawn. The discovery of mass graves prompted accusations of genocide.

After two terms as prime minister, Mugabe tightened his grip on power by changing the constitution, and he became president in 1987. His first wife, Sally, who had been seen by many as the only person capable of restraining him, died in 1992.

Grace Marufu, bride of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe waves at guests, Aug. 17, 1996, after their wedding ceremony at the Kutama Catholic mission

A turning point came at the end of the decade when Mugabe, by now a leader unaccustomed to accommodating the will of the people, suffered his first major defeat at the hands of voters, in a referendum on another constitution. He blamed his loss on the white minority, chastising them as “enemies of Zimbabwe.”

Days later, a groundswell of black anger at the slow pace of land reform started boiling over and gangs of black Zimbabweans calling themselves war veterans started to overrun white-owned farms.

Mugabe’s response was uncompromising, labeling the invasions a correction of colonial injustices.

“Perhaps we made a mistake by not finishing the war in the trenches,” he said in 2000. “If the settlers had been defeated through the barrel of a gun, perhaps we would not be having the same problems.” 

The farm seizures helped ruin one of Africa’s most dynamic economies, with a collapse in agricultural foreign exchange earnings unleashing hyperinflation.

The economy shrank by more than a third from 2000 to 2008, sending unemployment above 80%. Several million Zimbabweans fled, mostly to South Africa.

Brushing aside criticism, Mugabe portrayed himself as a radical African nationalist competing against racist and imperialist forces in Washington and London.

Rock bottom

The country hit rock bottom in 2008, when 500 billion percent inflation drove people to support the challenge of Western-backed former union leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Facing defeat in a presidential run-off, Mugabe resorted to violence, forcing Tsvangirai to withdraw after scores of his supporters were killed by ZANU-PF thugs.

South Africa, Zimbabwe’s neighbor to the south, squeezed the pair into a fractious unity coalition but the compromise belied Mugabe’s grip on power through his continued control of the army, police and secret service.

As old age crept in and rumors of cancer intensified, his animosity towards Tsvangirai eased and the two men enjoyed weekly meetings over tea and scones, in a nod to Mugabe’s affection for British traditions.

On the eve of the 2013 election, Mugabe dismissed cries of autocracy and likened dealing with Tsvangirai to sparring in the ring.

“Although we boxed each other, it’s not as hostile as before,” he told reporters.

Even as he spoke, Mugabe’s agents were busy finalizing plans to engineer an election victory through manipulation of the voters’ roll, according to the Tsvangirai camp.

It was typical of Mugabe’s ability to outthink — and if necessary outfight — his opponents, a trait that drew grudging respect from even his sternest critics.

Writing in a 2007 cable released by WikiLeaks, then-U.S. ambassador to Harare Christopher Dell reflected the views of many: “To give the devil his due, he is a brilliant tactician.”

 

 

 

 

 

In Uganda the Police are probing another night killing of two people on Entebbe Expressway:

This is one of the bodyguard suspected to have been shot dead

6th September, 2019

By Andrew Bagala

Security agencies have embarked on an investigation into the killing of a woman believed to be of Rwandan origin and her driver, who were shot dead on Entebbe Expressway on Thursday night.



M/s Merina Tumukunde

 

The two victims have been identified as Merina Tumukunde and Joshua Ruhegyera Nteyireho.

They were travelling in a Toyota Prado Reg. No. UAW 534B towards Entebbe International Airport. They were gunned down at a spot surrounded by an expansive swamp.

Entebbe Division police have opened a general inquiry under file  CRB: 978/2019.

According to police,on Thursday at about 11 pm, Entebbe Police Commander SP Baker Kawonawo received information about the shooting at Nambigirwa Bridge on Entebbe Expressway in Katabi Town Council, Wakiso District.

He led a team of scene of crime officers, a dog handler, police Flying Squad members, among other investigators to the scene.

 

 

 

 

 

The Uganda Government is reluctantly coming out to make a statement over the raise in violent crime in the country:

By Moses Walubiri, Moses Mulondo

 

Added 4th September 2019 

 

“On Thursday, I will come back to this House with a statement on the recent murders," Odongo said

 

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Gen. Odongo. File Photo
 
Security minister Gen. (Rtd). Jeje Odongo has revealed that the Executive is set to table a statement on the recent spike in abductions and murders in the country.
 
Odongo made the statement on Tuesday at Parliament following allegations by Francis Zake (Mityana Municipality) that security agencies which he claimed are used “to torturing citizens” might be behind the abductions and murders.
 
“On Thursday, I will come back to this House with a statement on the recent murders. But it is not true that the state has anything to do with these acts. Let the member (Zake) share evidence of his claims,” Odongo said.
 
Odongo’s revelation comes at a time of increased anxiety following the abduction and murder of James Kalumba, a former employee of Motorcare Nissan Uganda.
 
Kalumba, who had gone missing a month ago, was discovered dead in a swamp near his home in Kajjansi, Wakiso district.
 
A road maintenance worker stumbled upon Kalumba’s body, giving his family some form of closure.
 
Last week, Maria Nagirinya, a social worker working with a non-governmental organisation and her driver, Ronald Kitayimbwa, were kidnapped around Lungujja-Busega and murdered.
 
The issue of abductions and murders had reached worrying levels two years ago, with women and girls in Entebbe, Wakiso being the main targets.
 
The murders were attributed to varying causes.
 
This ranged from the bad blood between then security minister Lt Gen. (rtd). Henry Tumukunde and Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura allegedly compromising security in the country, to ritual murders by those who think shading human blood brings wealth.
 
While appearing before Parliament’s defence and internal affairs committee before getting dropped from cabinet, Tumukunde said isolated incidents of abduction and murder of citizens were incapable of bringing down a government.
 
But to Odongo, these murders can do enough damage to undermine the legitimacy of a government.
 
At the height of the concerns over murders, Odongo then tabled a statement in Parliament, attributing the crimes to a one Ivan Katongole, a renowned businessman dealing in fish export who had then been arrested in connection with the killings.
 
However, last January, court acquitted Katongole with justice Wilson Kwesiga noting that the prosecution against the businessman was malicious since it was carried out ‘in bad faith’.
 
 
 
 
 
 

In Buganda, the landlord has been killed over land ownership as the government looks on helplessly:











 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are many more killings that have happened in this region over land ownership and the government is unable to stop it.

Muhammad Kamada Kimbugwe, was attacked while distributing letters inviting the tenants for a meeting. 

 

 

By Barbra Nalweyiso

The police in Mityana District have intensified the hunt for people who reportedly killed a landlord in the municipality on Wednesday afternoon.
Muhammad Kamada Kimbugwe,50, met his death as he distributed copies of letters to tenants occupying his one-square mile piece of land covering four villages of Minaana, Kabule, Galabi and Kamuvole, all located in Tamu Division, Mityana Municipality.
The letters were inviting the tenants for a meeting set for August 13. 
But barely done with the issuance to eight households in Minaana Village, where he also lived, Kimbugwe was attacked.
Mr Norbert Ochom, the Wamala Regional Police spokesperson, said by telephone on Friday that Kimbugwe’s body had deep cuts on the head and neck.
“We have so far arrested three people, including the Minaana village chairperson. These suspects are believed to have attended a private meeting where residents planned to attack Kimbugwe. We believe these people have information which will be useful in investigations,” he said.
Mr Ochom said their findings indicate Kimbugwe had no intention of evicting the nearly 500 tenants on the land, but wanted them to regularise their tenancy.
Mityana Resident District Commissioner Isha Ntumwa said he had advised Kimbugwe against delivering the letters himself when he talked to him on the fateful day.
“He [Kimbugwe] came to my office at around midday yesterday [Wednesday] and I asked him to give me the letters and I deliver on his behalf. Unfortunately, he refused to buy my idea, saying I would delay the letters and he walked out. I was shocked to receive information at 2.30am that he [Kimbugwe] had been killed,” he said.
The planned meeting was reportedly expected to be attended by State Minister for Lands Persis Namuganza. 
Ms Namuganza did not respond to our repeated calls to her known telephone contacts yesterday to comment on the matter. Land has become a sticky issue in many districts in central Uganda where wealthy people with land titles are evicting poor tenants from what they call their ancestral land, claiming they are illegally settled on the land.
In the process of trying to repossess their land, many landlords have been chased away by angry tenants and in some instances the landlords have been lynched.

Previous incidents

In August 2009, a landlord, Sam Kubo, who tried to sell his land despite protests from his tenants, was lynched and his body set ablaze in Kayonza Sub-county, Kayunga District. 
In December 2015, five landlords in Kiboga District were also lynched by tenants as they gathered for a meeting at the home of Kulwayo Village chairperson Sande Kiguli. The meeting was intended to introduce a new landlord whom they had sold the land to. The tenants saw the meeting as a ploy to evict them from their land.
Police identified the deceased as Bosco Mugisha, Paul Bukenya, Charles Matovu Dominic, Mugambe Asiime and Swalih Mukunya. 
The angry mob also set on fire vehicles of the landlords.

 

 

 

 

 

Wano e Buganda, abasuubuzi b’e Kaleerwe balwanye ne Poliisi nebijambiya kuluno nebivayo!

By Moses Lemisa

 

Added 10th August 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Omu ku basuubuzi ng’ayolekezza Kasembeza ekiso okumutema.

 

Aba KCCA baasoose kuyoola mmaali yaabwe, ne babakanyugira amayinja, ekyawalirizza poliisi okukubamu ttiya gaasi n’amasasi mu bbanga n’ekwatako abamu ku bo.

 

Aba KCCA bwe baagenze, abasuubuzi bano baatandise okuziba enguudo ne baziteekamu emisanvu ekyaviiriddeko akalippagano k’ebidduka. Poliisi yayitiddwa wabula abaserikale babiri bokka be baasobodde okutuuka.

Abasuubuzi baalabise nga baabasinzizza amaanyi era omu ku bano yakutte omumyuka wa Oc w’oku Kaleerwe, Twahir Kasembeza amataayi n’amugalulira ekiso okumutema.

 

Wano abamu ku basuubuzi baalabye munnaabwe ky’akola kikyamu ne bamukwata ne bamuggyawo oluvannyuma abaAbasuubuzi serikale abalala okuva e Wandegeya bazze ne bakuba amasasi mu bbanga n’omukka ogubalagala okubagumbulula kuba baabadde tebasalikako musale.

Abaserikale baggyeewo emisanvu mu nguudo era mmotoka ne ziddamu okutambula embeera n’edda mu nteeko.

Abavubuka obwedda bagufudde mugano okunyakula obusawo ku bakazi n’amasimu nga waliwo n’emmotoka ezaayasiddwa endabirwamu .

Ku Lwokusatu lwa wiiki eno, abaserikale ba KCCA baakutte abamu ku basuubuzi ng’ekisinga okwewuunyisa bonna baayimbuddwa kyokka emmaali yaabwe poliisi n’egisigaza.

Abasi Kimbugwe, omu ku basuubuzi b’amatooke, yategeezezza nti akolera munda wabula kw’olwo yabadde agenze kunona mwana ku ssomero aba KCCA ne bamukwata.

Agamba nti baamututte n’abakwate abalala era bwe baatuuse e Nakawa ne bamusaba ssente emitwalo 20 nga zino mukyala we ye yazisasudde. Abasuubuzi baafiiriddwa ebimeeza kwe bakolera , ebyamaguzi n’ebirala.

Wabula, abamu ku bakulembeze abatwala obutale bw’oku Kaleerwe n’aba-suubuzi abakolera munda ku midaala baagambye nti bazze balaga obutalibumativu bwabwe ku bakolera ku nguudo kuba bo basasula omusolo mu KCCA n’abasuubuzi ne basasula empooza ekitali ku bakolera ku nguudo.

Abalala balumiriza bannannyini butale okuba n’omukono mu kusolooza ssente ku bakolera ku nguudo kye bagamba nti nakyo kibasibyeko abantu bano.

 

 

 

 

 

Mugisha bamuzzizzaayo gye battira Mulindwa

By Joseph Makumbi

 

Added 22nd July 2019

 

Kakeeka-Mengo we battira owa bodaboda Derrick Mulindwa nga June 30, baali baakamala okuttirawo owa bodaboda omulala.

 

John Bosco Mugisha Mukiga, eggulo poliisi yamuzizzaayo mu kifo kino n’abalaga bwe batta abantu bombi.

 

Yabatta ali ne Young Mulo (Aloysius Tamale) ne munnaabwe Kagame. “Oyo (Mulindwa) si y’asoose. Wano twattirawo omulala mu March omwaka guno.

Mu March waaliwo ebitooke we twamuttira. We twattidde Mulindwa ng’ebitooke tebikyaliwo.

 

Eyasooka twamukuba ejjinja ku mutwe n’afiirawo”, bwe yategeezezza abaserikale abaavudde e Kampalamukadde. Poliisi yakutte ku vidiyo byonna bye yabalaze.

“Gwe twasooka okutta yajja avuga Mulo ku pikipiki. Nze ne Kagame twali tubalinze awo mu bitooke. Bwe baatuukawo Mulo n’agamba owa bodaboda ayimirire.

Mulo yamukwata akabadiya olwo nze ne Kagame ne tufubutuka mu bitooke ne tumuyamba okutta. Nze nnamukuba ejjinja ku mutwe.

Kagame yavuga pikipiki, olwo nze ne Mulo ne tutuula emabega”, bwe yannyonnyodde.

Okutta Mulindwa, yagambye nti baava ku bbaala e Makindye ne bagenda e Kakeeka ku ssaawa nga 3:00 ez’ekiro.

Baalina ekirowoozo ky’okuttira owa bodaboda gye baali bagenda okubba mu kifo kyennyini we battira eyasooka. Kyokka baasanga ebitooke tebiriiwo nga bazimbawo enju.

Twafuna ekifo emabegako katono awo Mulo we yakweka ennyondo ne bagenda okunoonya pikipiki. “Pikipiki twagiggya ku Duster Street okumpi ne Radio One n’etutwala e Kakeeka we twamuttira”, bwe yagambye. Yalaze engeri gye baamutammu naddala engeri gye yakuba ennyondo.

Pikipiki baasooka kugitwala ku mayiro mwenda ku lw’e Gayaza ne tugissa mu paakingi. Amannya twawandiisaayo Kayihura mu kitabo. Mugisha yalina ssente n’asasula ssente mwe baasula ekiro ekyo.

Nga bukedde, Mugisha yawa Mulo 15,000/- agende asisinkane omugagga eyabasasulako 200,000/- ku kakadde kamu ke baagimuguza kyokka 800,000/- tazibawanga. Kino kitegeeza nti Mulindwa baamuttira 200,000/- zokka.

Yabatutte we yasuula ennyondo n’abatwala n’e Kabuusu-Lubaga we yasuula essimu gye babba ku Mulindwa.

Pikipiki eyasooka gye babba ku wa bodaboda gwe battira naye e Kakeeka baagitunda 600,000/-.

Omugagga yabalagira kugimusanza wa Zzana. Mu kugabana ssente Mugisha yafuna 150,000/- ne Kagame 150,000/- ate Mulo yafuna 300,000/- kubanga y’akolagana n’omugagga ate y’aleeta n’emirimu.

Yagambye nti, bwe baatuuka awaali omugagga, Young Mulo yabaleka busukkakkubo n’agenda n’amusisinkana n’amuwa pikipiki n’addayo gye bali ne 600,000/-. Agamba omugagga yali ayambadde ekikoofiira ky’abavuzi ba bodaboda ku mutwe teyasobola ku mwetegereza.

 

 

Yagambye nti okuva February 2019, ye ne Mulo baakabba pikipiki mukaaga. Kyokka nga bukya atandika kukola mulimu ogwo baakatta aba bodaboda 17. Teyejjusa kutta ba bodaboda kubanga “nabo bwe batukwatako batuttirawo awatali kutusaasira.

Pikikipi nkwatako nnamba ssatu ezisooka eziraga obupya bwa pikipiki. Eya Mulindwa nnakwatako UER eyo gye tubuulira omugagga okumanya nti ekyali mpya”.

ENGERI GYE YAKUBA ENNYONDO;

Yalaze poliisi engeri Young Mulo gye yakwata Mulindwa akabadiya n’amukuba ku ttaka.

Yagambye nti, olwamala okumukuba ku ttaka, ye Mugisha yadduka mangu n’aggyawo pikipiki n’adduka n’akima ennyondo we baali bagikwese.

Yamenye ekiti kya muwogo n’asaba bamuteerewo omutwe gw’omuntu abalage bwe yatta Mulindwa abaserikale ne bagaana.

Yabalaze ekitaffaali n’abagamba bakimuleetere ky’aba akozesa n’akisitula n’abagamba nti “omutwe gwa fala gwali wano ne nkima ennyondo ne muggyamu ekikoofiira ne nkikasuka eri ne mmuwa.

Yalina essimu ne ngimuggyako. Mulo n’asamba pikipiki ne tugenda”. Bwe yamaze okubalaga bwe baamukuba, yabatutte we yasuula ennyondo ku kkubo eriva e Mengo okwambuka e Kabuusu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Uganda Police has arrested a  suspect that must have killed a motorcyclist as was seen on the security camera of a school:

By Monitor Uganda, Reporter

 

17 July, 2019

One of the suspects in the gruesome murder of a boda boda cyclist seen on CCTV footage that went viral on social media last month, has been arrested and confessed to the crime, police have said.

“John Bosco Mugisha and his colleague murdered Mr Derrick Mulindwa, a resident of Nabweru, Nansana Municipality on June 30, 2019,” Police said in a statement.
The two suspected robbers were on June 30 captured on a school CCTV camera strangling Derrick Mulindwa, a boda boda cyclist, in Kakyeka Mengo in Rubaga Division in Kampala.

 

Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Mr Patrick Onyango on Wednesday, told journalists that one Mugisha alias Mukiga was arrested on Tuesday night at Nsiike I, Rubaga Division, Kampala after a tip off.

“Mugisha alleges that he escaped that day and went to Kabale,” Mr Onyango added.

“Mugisha admits that he is the one in the video with his colleague called Young Mulo (not the musician). He confessed that Young Mulo was killed by the mob on July 3, 2019 on suspicion that they had stolen a motor cycle,” Mr Onyango said.

 

One of the robbers holding the subdued Mulindwa (L) as his accomplice (R) runs to pick a blunt object that he used to hit his head several times.

 

Mugisha reportedly told police that they had robbed the motor cycle from Mityana District on July 2 but they were traced up to Makindye in Kampala where the mob killed his colleague.

 

He is currently detained at Katwe police station pending transfer to Old Kampala Police Station.
Police said Mugisha will be charged with murder and aggravated robbery.

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It looks as though prison in Uganda does not help the criminals to reform.

And the liberated state of Uganda reckons that the only way to reform a criminal is to cut his head off and bury his torso in unmarked grave.

That exactly is what the liberators of Uganda did to those fighters that they found out that had committed treason in Luweero during that unfortunate civil war!

 

 

 

 

 

In Uganda, the murder of a boda boda(motorcyclist) rider has been captured, night time, by CCTV camera on a city primary school:

 

By The Uganda Monitor reporter

 

30 June, 2019

 

 

The incident, which occurred on Saturday at about 4 am, at Kakeeka Zone, Rubaga Division, Kampala District, was captured on the CCTV cameras of a nearby nursery and primary school.

 

 

This now is an African country that has failed to modernize safe urban public transport and the public presently using this essential infrastructure have their lives in greater danger day and night (24/7):

The victim and the robbers captured on the CCTV camera at the scene giving them a ride before they murdered him and his boda boda taken

One of the robbers strangles the boda boda rider as his accomplice tries to pull away the motorcycle

One of the robbers holding the subdued boda boda rider on the ground (L) as his accomplice (R) runs to pick a stone that he used to hit his head several times

The two suspected robbers are now ready to steal the boda boda rider's motorcycle after killing him on June 29, 2019. COURTESY PHOTO 

Police are investigating a gruesome murder of a boda boda rider, by two male robbers, who posing as clients, attacked, strangled and hit him with a stone to the head, killing him instantly, Mr Fred Enanga, the spokesman of the force has said.

Mr Enanga said in a statement that the CCTV camera footage was retrieved by the police and widely circulated for the public to help in the identification of the two suspects.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is wrong with the right leg of this gentleman? Probably Head light of motorcycle shone on the leg?

 

 

“At the moment, our cyber forensic experts are analysing the CCTV footage for facial recognition and formal identification of the suspects, as well as the registration number plates of the stolen motorcycle,” Mr Enanga said.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wbALgfPL0E

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMJd9B9xi34 

 

 

“We are also engaging managers of all boda boda stages, whose members could have disappeared or anyone that might have knowledge about a missing rider or the two male suspects, to contact police.”

Mr Enanga said additional teams from the Homicide and Flying Squad departments have been dispatched to Old Kampala Police Divisional Headquarters, to assist in identifying the suspects and tracking them down for arrest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Killed him as he holds on to the head helmet?

Faces are very clear for those who know them!

 

“We want to use this opportunity to remind all boda boda riders, of continued threats against them, of robbers posing as potential clients. We urge them to avoid late night transactions, avoid carrying more than one passenger and to share trip details with colleagues,” he said.

He said the body of the boda boda rider was taken to the city mortuary for a post-mortem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Vice President of Uganda, Mr Edward Ssekandi has  asked Ugandans in diaspora to invest in their home country:

By The New Vision Uganda

 

Added 1st July 2019

 

Ssekandi assured Ugandans of Government commitment in ensuring that there investments back home are protected

 

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The Vice-President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi currently in the Ontario Provincial Capital of Toronto - Canada has called on Ugandans in the diaspora to consider investing back at home as a national cause and obligation in the spirit of National pride and commitment to the country’s development efforts.


Ssekandi, who was speaking at annual Ugandan Canadian Diaspora Business Expo and Convention 2019 in Toronto, urged Ugandans to always project Uganda’s hospitality and warm-heartedness and also be law-abiding citizens wherever they are saying that, they are all ambassadors of Uganda.

He assured Ugandans of Government commitment in ensuring that there investments back home are protected and asked them to raise any issues of concern so that they are addressed through the right channels to avoid suspicion and misleading information some of which he said has in the past been negative propaganda.

The Vice-President told the convention that although there still exist some challenges in Uganda like unemployment among the youth, there are already visible achievements because Uganda is moving forward even in the face of global economics slow down.

The highlighted the economic growth average income of Uganda as having increased to US$835 per capita in 2018/2019 compared to us$800 in 2017 despite the increasing population growth of now to 40 million people.

Earlier in the day Vice President and Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, attended a Mult-Faith Service led by at the Court-Yard Marriot Hotel led by Rev. Joseph Kiirya of River Jordan Ministries, Ottawa, Bishop Isaiah Mbuga, Rev. Eddie Jjumba, and Sheik Fahad Amir Nsubuga.

Kadaga called upon Ugandans in the diaspora to respect leaders and urged them to always engage in dialogue, saying undermining the Government back at home is counterproductive because it’s the same Government which provides for the wellbeing of the people back at home and also systems to enable than travel and stay safely outside Uganda,

Kadaga, who was accompanied by several MPs, highlighted many investment opportunities back home and the legislation in place aimed at protecting there investments and also urged Uganda to make use of the dual citizenship to plan for there retirement back in Uganda.

The convention was also addressed by Uganda’s High Commissioner to Canada Joy Ruth Acheng and Uganda Canadian Diaspora Business Expo and Convention President John Nalima.

 

 

 

 

 

A car stolen from President Museveni, has been recovered in Kenya with S.Sudan number plates:

 
A car that was stolen from President Museveni and sneaked into Kenya seven months ago has been returned to Uganda after recovery.
 

The vehicle, a Toyota Kluger was stolen from a fleet of Museveni’s cars last year in November. However, on getting wind that the car had crossed the border into Kenya, Museveni telephoned his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta to ensure it is recovered.

Kenyatta put the Kenyan flying squad on alert, who traced the vehicle and in April, found it in Gilgil. It is reported that the suspected car thieves on noticing they were being trailed, hopped out of the car and sprinted to the near by bushes as the car reached a weigh bridge.

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By the time the car was recovered, it had already been fitted with South Sudanese Number Plates; SSD 598M. The car was later towed to the Nairobi flying squad offices and would be handed over to Museveni as soon as chassis numbers were verified.

Yesterday, a senior Kenya flying squad officer handed over the car to Museveni’s team.

Through his WhatsApp status, Presidential Press Secretary, Don Wanyama shared a stream of pictures which Nile Post believes are of the suspected Kluger.

Wanyama thanked Kenyan Flying Squad officier, John Njoroge before captioning one of the pictures; “Our machine is back, it has been a long chase, 8 months to be exact,” about the same time the Kluger has been missing.

This is not the first time Uganda and Kenya are joining forces to recover a car from each of the presidential fleets.

In September 2014, Uganda Police helped recover President Uhuru Kenyatta’s stolen escort car, a BMW. The suspected thieves vandalised the car and removed the tracking system, but were traced through one of their girlfriends and arrested in Wandegeya.

Again in August last year, a black Nissan V8 which is part of Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential convoy was stolen from State House Nairobi but was intercepted at a police barrier in Boma Ng’ombe headed towards Kilimanjaro according to Tanzanian police.

It had the registration plates number T954 DEQ which police said were fake. The car’s original registration is said to have been KCP 184R.

 

 

 

 

 

In Uganda, Kampala, there is the dodgy car scrape yard, where all sorts of cars get lost in scrape at Mambule metal yard: 

6th April, 2019

 

By Henry Lubega


A man passes by Mambule car graveyard in Bwaise, Kawempe Division, Kampala. Car wreckages are collected from all over the country and deposited here before they are dismantled for their spare parts and scrap metal. Inset, a worker chops what remains of a car into smaller pieces to be sold as scrap. PHOTOS BY HENRY LUBEGA.

 

Different makes, brands and models are piled on top of one another in different stages of their death. Hovering around are scrap dealers waiting to grab the skeleton leftovers. Welcome to Mambule car graveyard in Bwaise, Kawempe Division, Kampala.

Car wreckages are collected from all over the country and deposited here for their last days as they are ripped apart one piece after the other until the final remains are taken to a steel milling factory for their epitaph.

It is from here that a car is dismantles and its parts are scattered in the East African region and beyond. 
Traders come from as far as DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, and Southern Sudan looking for spare parts. 
How it started
What started more than 40 years ago as a sole proprietorship has given birth to a whole industry, creating hundreds of direct jobs and thousands more indirectly. Having started from a small piece of land less than a 10x10ft on the defunct Mambule Road, the graveyard now covers several acres.

It has now grown into an association of traders; Mambule Road Spare Parts Trader’s Association. According to the association’s defence secretary, Salongo Kadali, as the number of traders and cars increased, there was need to form an association to unite them in the business.

“This business was started by the late Mohammed Mugalu more than 40 years ago. He started by buying accident car wreckages and other government cars sold under auction once they were written off the road.”

With Mugalu’s death, the business suffered for some time before Fred Luboyera, also deceased, revived it. 
“When Luboyera came in, he was buying cars, some of them in working condition and resold them as spare parts,” Kadali says. 
It was during Luboyera’s time that the trade attracted more people and it grew into what it is today. 
There is a silver lining in every dark cloud. When Kiseka Market in downtown Kampala closed for redevelopment, it was a windfall for spare parts traders and landlords on Mambule Road.

“A sizeable number of Kiseka Market traders moved here and as a result, rent prices increased,” Kadali says. 
Even before the ongoing developments, Mambule Road was a supplier of spare parts to Kiseka Market. “Old car parts were collected from here by Kiseka Market traders, who would clean them up and present them as either new or reconditioned from Japan or Dubai, United Arab Emirates,” Kadali reveals.

Sources of the cars
It is difficult to know the exact number of vehicles received at Mambule car graveyard per month because the leaders do not document it. But one thing the management of the graveyard is sure about is that the bulk of them have real value for money.

“About 70 per cent of the cars we receive here are accident wreckages. As police statistics indicate, most of the accidents are due to reckless driving. Old cars are hardly driven recklessly as compared to cars in sound condition, which are driven recklessly and thus the accidents. As a result, their spares parts are always in good working condition, save for the damaged parts, which are mostly external,” Kadali says.

Since majority of the cars are accident wreckages, police comes into the picture. But the police don’t come to them looking for market, although it is the main source of such cars. There are brokers who monitor such cars at different police stations and even follow them through the court processes.

“We get most of these cars from police stations all over the country. We pay for them through the courts, and present the receipts at the concerned police station before we tow the car here,” Isma Makumbi, the chairman of the association, says.

However, not all cars are accident wreckages. Some cars are got directly from the owners’ homes. 
“There are some cars we get from people’s homes after they had been grounded for some time, while others are got from government parking yards after they are auctioned to us,” Kadali says.

Unlike other car buyers, the spare parts dealers at Mambule car graveyard value the cars they buy based on the resalable parts left of them. As a result, it is not possible to fix a particular price.

“When buying these cars, we value them from the smallest part of the car that we can sell off it. It is possible to buy a Toyota Harrier at Shs4m and buy a Toyota Probox at Shs7m. This is in such cases where the Harrier may be more damaged than the Probox.”
There are also incidences where owners approach them with offers to sell to them their car wreckages. In such cases, Makumbi says they have ground rules to follow before a purchase is made.

“In such cases, the seller must produce the original logbook in their name and the number plate. Where the logbook is not in the seller’s name, he or she must present an original sale agreement with the person whose name appear in the logbook, without which we don’t buy the car,” Kadali explains.

A walk through the yard reveals that some car wreckages still have number plates, while others don’t.

“When buying an accident car wreckage, police retain the number plates, while the ones bought from individuals are brought with their number plates and after the car has been ripped and sold, the number plates are returned to police,” Makumbi explains.
Some car models brought to the graveyard are too old and considered outdated. However, Kadali says some car models considered outdated in Uganda have their spare parts much sought after by trades from Kenya and Tanzania. 
For instance, Kadali explains: “Once upon a time, the Toyota 1200 pick-up truck was the in thing, especially for town errands. However, with the introduction of K-trucks which are more fuel efficient and carry more goods, the pick-up 1200 was pushed off the road. The same happened to the Sahara pick-ups. They were pushed off the market by the Town Ace for the same reason as the pickups 1200.”

 

Chaos of car ownership. Just like any other business dealing in old and wrecked vehicles, Mambule car graveyard has also got its own challenges. According to Kadali, despite the strict ground rules to be followed before they buy a car from somebody, they still get incidences such as buying stolen cars.

He cites an incident where a woman allegedly sold a car to them, only for the husband to turn up with police looking for the same car, now reported as stolen. It turned out that the woman sold the car without the man’s consent.

“In most cases, such incidences go to court and the case drags on for long. As businessmen, sometimes we fail to appear in court all the time and we end up losing our money just like that,” Kadali says.

Besides cases like the aforementioned, the managers have also had to deal with cases where two people claim ownership of the same car and each has a “genuine” logbook. In some cases, they have had stolen cars with changed number plates. 
Makumbi says in such cases, they strike a win-win deal with the authorities. “Once a car is proved to have been stolen, we work with the authorities to ensure that neither of the parties loses. The car is returned to the owner and police helps us recover our money,” he says.

 

 

 

 

 

Uganda Car Number Plate Robbery, and then the car itself is gone:

 

By World Media

 

18 February, 2019

 

 

 

 

They first come and take off this car number plate and then all is lost:

 

 

There is a new number plate hijacking trend. Hi-jackers follow you to a parking lot, after you leave your vehicle, they remove your number plate and wait. When u come back and drive off, they follow you. They then overtake you, displaying your number plate out of their window as if you just lost it and they want to give it back to you.
When you stop to get your number plate back, guns come out and they take the car. Maybe even take you and your car. It's a very well rehearsed and organised plan and everything happens very quickly. Other motorists may not be aware of what is happening as you stopped the car yourself. Please alert others to this danger!!! Don't keep this news. Spread it.

 

 

 

 

 

In Uganda, Police have recovered dozens of car number plates in Kisenyi urban slam raids but the cars are nowhere to be seen:

By URN

3rd February, 2019

 

 

The Uganda Police busy playing politics, have now recovered dozens of car number plates from a garage located in Kisenyi Parish, Kampala District. But the cars are nowhere to be seen.

According to police, the garage was being used by thieves to dismantle stolen motor vehicles.

The car parts and scrap would then be sold to unsuspecting buyers in various shops.

The raid, followed information about a stolen commuter taxi Reg. No. UAQ 723E that was being dismantled in the garage.

Police Flying Squad officers who were dispatched to the garage last evening, recovered the vehicle in the garage but its engine and tyres were missing.

 

During the search, 27 sets of number plates were recovered.  The recovered number plates include; UAK 693L, UAP 246U, UAL 547B, UAM 866H, UAJ 029B, UAN 270S, UAM 912Q, UAL 739D, UAM 597U, UAP 869H, UAL 883H, UAH 334M, UAH 024M, UAM 508A, UAP 708X, UAM605G, UAP 928S, UAR 234U, UAL O23U, UAM 234F, UAM 961A, UAR 703E.

While the above were a pair of number plates police was also recovered single plates that included UAL 833B, UAL 245W, UAR 583M and UAL 159H.

 

Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Mr Patrick Onyango said the recovered number plates are being scrutinised to check whether they are not of reported stolen motor vehicles.

 "We have records of stolen vehicles.  We will compare and see if they are the ones. They owners of the plates can also come to police to make statements," Mr Onyango said.

Two suspects who were arrested during the raid, have been detained.

Police records based on more than 5-years of stolen motor vehicle search and recovery indicate that while new motor vehicles that are stolen are sold in Kenya, DR Congo and South Sudan, old motor vehicles that are stolen are usually dismantled into spare parts and scrap and sold.

Last year, police recovered seven stolen motor vehicles hidden in different garages in Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono districts.

 

 

 

 

 

Wano e Uganda, Kampala, Military Police ezingizza ekikomera ekigambibwa nti ababbi b’emmotoka mwe beekweka, ne kikwatako babiri:

 

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Kimera (ku kkono) ne Odongo.

 

 
Bya Margret Zalwango 
 
Ssaawa zaabadde 9:00 ez’ekiro ekyakeesezza Olwomukaaga aba ISO ne bazingako ekikomera omuli ennyumba eya kalina ezimbibwa mwe baakwatidde abavubuka
babiri be baludde nga balondoola ku bubbi bw’emmotoka.
 
Baasanze baakayingizaayo emmotoka ekika kya Noah kapyata gye babbye mu galagi ekiro ekyo.
 
Bino byabadde mu zooni y’e Kaabuuma mu minisipaali ya Makindye Ssaabagabo mu distulikiti y’e Wakiso, gye baakwatidde bavubuka babiri n’emmotoka ekika kya Noah nnamba UBB 882F gye babbye mu galagi emu.
 
Abaakwatiddwa ye Daniel Odongo nga yeeyita Magezi enzaalwa y’e Alebtong nga yasoma bya kukanika mmotoka era yategeezezza aba ISO nti mu galagi mwe yayigira okuvulumula emmotoka ku sipiidi eya waggulu.
 
Odongo yakwatiddwa ne Shafik Kimera omutuuze w’e Namungooona nga baasangiddwa mu nnyumba eri mu kikomera mwe babadde babeera wadde
ng’ebadde ekyazimbibwa.
 
Abavubuka bano baagambye nti baludde mu mulimu gw’okubba emmotoka era tewali mmotoka ebalemerera bwe baba bagyagadde.
 
Beewuunyisizza abajaasi bwe baategezezza nti mu Uganda temuli mmotoka ebalema kutwala nga n’ezirimu obuuma obulondoola emmotoka (tracker) bazitwala nga nnyiniyo tategedde.
 
Odongo yattottodde nti yatandika okubba mmotoka ku ntandikwa ya 2017 nga bakolera wamu mu kibinja n’ayongerako nti mu kiseera kino tamanyi muwendo gwa mmotoka ze yaakabba.
 
Yagambye nti emmotoka ze basinga okutwala zibeera za buyonjo omuli noah, Prado, Premio wadde nga wiiki ewedde balina takisi kigege gye baatutte, wabula bettanira nnyo enkola empya ku katale.
 
Bazitwala Kenya nga bayita ku nsalo e Busia we basanga bannaabwe
abalala olwo ne bayingira Kenya. Wakati mu kubuuzibwa, kyazuuliddwa nti Odongo abaddde yaakava mu kkomera lya Murcshion Bay e Luzira gy’abadde yaggalirwa
ku misango gy’okutomera omuntu nga kigambibwa nti era yali avuga mmotoka enzibe
ng’agivuga ku sipiidi eya waggulu.
 
Baayongeddeko nti emmotoka bwe bamala okuzibba baziyingiza ekikomera mwe basula olwo ekiro ne basimbula okuzitwala e Kenya nga tewali abakuba ku mukono.
 
Mu wiiki baagambye nti batwala mmotoka ezitakka wansi wa mukaaga, olwo
buli mmotoka gye batwala ne baweebwa omutwalo gw’e Kenya.
 
Baagambye nti e Kenya bazitwalira Joseph Buruuli gwe baakazaako erya “Jose” ng’ono olumu bamusanga Busia ne bakyusa ennamba za mmotoka ne bassaako eza Kenya bwe kiba kyetaagisizza, kyokka olumu nti bazivugira ku nnamba za Uganda ne batakyusa okutuuka e Kenya.
 
Okukwata abasajja bano aba ISO bagamba nti baludde nga babalondoola oluvannyuma
lw’okukwatibwa kw’abamu ku baali mu kibinja kyabwe okuli Wilson, Edgar Kiyemba n’abalala.
 
Mu nnyumba baasangiddwaamu ne munnaabwe Marks Kizito era ono yeemuludde n’adduka nga kigambibwa nti ono mutabani wa nnannyini kalina mwe babadde babeera, era kigambibwa nti nnyiniyo abeera bweru wa ggwanga.
 
Omu ku batuuze abaliraanyeewo yagambye nti buli lunaku bawulira emmotoka eziyingira mu kikomera ekyo kyokka babadde tebamanyi nti mulimu abantu abasulamu nga balaba kalina ekyazimbibwa ng’ate ne ggeeti ebeera nzigale buli kiseera.
 
 
 
 
 

Poliisi esuuzizza ababbi mmotoka y'omugagga w'e Nabbingo

By Ponsiano Nsimbi

 

Added 4th October 2018

 

POLIISI ekubye amasasi mu bbanga ng’egobagana n'ababbi abaayingiridde omugagga w'e Nabbingo ne babba eby'omu nnyumba omuli n'emmotoka okukkakkana ng'ebasuuzizza omunyago. 

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Nabbona ng'alaga mmotoka ye ababbi gye babadde babbye

 

Bino byabaddewo mu kiro ekyakeesezza Olwokuna ku ssaawa 9:00 ogw’ekiro ababbi abattannamanyika bibakwatako bwe babuuse ekikomera kya Lauben Kulumba, omusuubuzi w’engoye ku kizimbe kya Nakivubo Complex mu Kampala ne bateeka be baasanze mu nnyumba ku miguwa okwabadde n’omukuumi ne batandika okunyagulula ebintu by’omu nnyumba.

Robinah Nabbona muka Kulumba yategeezezza ng’obulumbaganyi buno bwe baabaddewo ku ssaawa 9:00 ogw’ekiro nga bonna beebase era baagenze okudda engulu ng'ababbi babatuuseeko oluvannyuma lw'okumenyi oluggi lw'emiryango.

 

 

 

 

 

In Kampala, Uganda, five young mechanics have been arrested for stealing, dismantling and selling cars to Scrap yard dealers:

 

Five arrested for stealing, dismantling and selling cars to scrap dealers

The suspects were arrested Monday from a rented parking yard located at the premises of Daliya Bembe in Nansana, Wakiso District in an operation led by SP. Benard Katwalo. PHOTOS BY POLICE ON FACEBOOK 

11 September, 2018

Police have arrested five people for allegedly stealing, dismantling and selling motor vehicles to scrap dealers.
The suspects were arrested Monday from a rented parking yard located at the premises of Daliya Bembe in Nansana, Wakiso District.

Acting on information provided to police by the area lookout teams about the suspicious activities taking place in the neighbourhood, Nansana Police led by SP. Benard Katwalo conducted a raid on the premises, Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire has said.
Four of the suspects were arrested while dismantling a Toyota Noah car registration number UAR 157N.
Police also found another car in the same premises a Toyota Premio UAK 982B, already dismantled.
“This vehicle was reported missing on Wednesday August 29, 2018 by the owner Mr Joshua Lubega Babulira.

 

Without a viable youth programme to help the African youth in modern global productive employment, such criminal activity in the expanding city of Kampala is likely to increase

 

It's said to have been stolen from his home at 2 am and a case was opened up at CPS Kampala vide SD REF. 12/29/08/2018,” Mr Owoyesigyire said.
A number of car accessories like brand new tyres, Mark II windscreens engraved with a registration number (UAF 325K), radio systems were reportedly recovered during the search.
Police also discovered an isolated burning ground where the non-profitable vehicle parts like spinges, wires were suspected wasted into ashes to avoid any possible evidence.

“During questioning, the suspects told police that a vehicle weighing between 1,000 and 1500 kg is usually dismantled in less than four hours and sold at an amount between Shs2 million and Shs3 million,” the police spokesperson added.
He said in their statement, the suspects revealed that they dismantled vehicles instead of re-selling them in order to avoid being detected, tracked and arrested by the police.
The suspects are currently detained at Nansana Police Station pending charges on various cases including stealing of motor vehicles and aggravated robbery.

 

 

 

 

 

In Uganda, the Kampala Metropolitan Police have recovered only 7 stolen cars of recent out of hundreds stolen every month:

People inspect some of the stolen luxury cars tha

People inspect some of the stolen luxury cars that were impounded in August 2016 by Uganda Revenue Authority at its headquarters in Nakawa, Kampala. PHOTO BY ALEX ESAGALA 

 

17 July, 2018

 

UGANDA, Kampala- The recomposed Police Flying Squad Unit (FSU) has recovered seven cars stolen from drivers and hidden in different suburbs of Kampala.

Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire yesterday said FSU recovered the vehicles hidden in garages and houses in places such as Nansana, Nateete, Lungujja, Ndeeba and Namanve. The recovered cars had been stolen in the last two weeks.

“FSU registered complaints from owners of these vehicles and started investigations that included deploying covert officers at strategic places until we recovered some of them. The recoveries are here at CPS (Central Police Station) and others are being kept at other stations,” he said.

The motor vehicles include a Toyota Hiace registration number UAP 693Z white in colour that was recovered from Nansana, Wakiso District and its case was registered at Nansana Police Station. A Toyota Premio UAF 782X white colour was recovered in the city centre and case recorded at FSU headquarters at CPS while motor vehicle UAG 193L with forged number plate UAU 340T, was recovered from Lungujja in Rubaga Division and its case was registered at CPS.

Other recovered vehicles are; Toyota Premio UBA 738K grey in colour which was found in Nansana-Gganda and the case is being handled at CPS, Toyota Mark II UAM 598E white in colour found in Nateete-Wakaliga. The case was registered at FSU. A Toyota Ipsum UAW 957B blue in colour was recovered from Ndeeba while a Toyota Wish UBD 974F white in colour was recovered from the city centre. The cases are registered at FSU headoffice.

“These vehicles had been hidden inside washing bays while others were concealed in garages and homes. Motor vehicles are often stolen from streets, outside places of entertainment, supermarkets and office buildings,” Mr Owoyesigyire said.

In April, police exposed tricks used by thugs to steal vehicles that included duplication of car keys, deliberate accidents, duplicated number plates and car break-ins.

This was during the release of the report on 200 cars stolen from Kampala and its outskirts in 2017.
The report showed Toyota Premio were most targeted vehicles by thugs making a 35 per cent of car thefts followed by Toyota Spacio, Raum and Ipsum that came in second, third and fourth, respectively.

jkato@ug.nationmedia.com

 

 

 

 

 

As the crime rate in Uganda shoots up, the Police have trailed, shot and arrested some more unemployed youths that steal car number plates in Mbarara township:

The unemployed youth shows off his lucrative hardware business

30 April, 2018

By Felix Aineboona

Police in Mbarara has started an operation against number plate theft. Three suspects have been arrested with hundreds of number plates they plucked off vehicles around Mbarara town.

Rwizi region police spokesperson Samson Kasasira, who confirmed the arrests, said there has been rampant theft of number plates in Mbarara as each suspect has over 100 number plates on his name.
"We have had rampant cases of number plate thefts and fortunately we have been able to arrest a number of suspects behind this crime. Among the three suspects we have, each suspect to his name he has over a hundred numbers that they have stolen," Mr Kasasira said.
He added that some of the number plates are stolen from parking lots that do not have security guards while some are stolen from homes at night.
"They work in rackets and the bigger team is outside there," Mr Kasasira said.
He said police has also obtained telephone lines the suspects have been using to collect money from the victims and appealed to members of the public have been conned in the same way to bring evidence to police.
"We only have three suspects and the lines they have been using to obtain money. We request that whoever that have been affected by these numbers 0706003109, 0755070971, 0755726492 and 0750917808 either in Mbarara or you have been a passerby going to Kabale and you have lost your number plate, or you have been coming from Kampala to tour areas of Mbarara and you have lost your number plate but paid money to get it back, you can help us in the prosecution of these suspects and also help recover other number plates," Mr Kasasira said.

The three suspects were identified as Nasasira Arnold (26), Rashid Sseruwada (18) and Kanyesigye Suwedi (18). They are all residents of Katete Mbarara municipality. Nasasira was shot in the heel when he attempted to grab a steering wheel of the police vehicle as they approached Katete Bridge. The bridge crossing river Rwizi links Lugazi to Katete ward in Mbarara Municipality.

Mr Kasasira says that Nasasira wanted to swerve the police vehicle into river Rwizi so as to escape which forced police to shoot at him in the foot.
"We have one suspect who was shot in the foot as he tried to run away. We did this because we want to put our officers at risk. The police invest a lot of money to train these police officers and so we cannot let a simple thug take out five police officers just because he has to survive. As police we are telling anyone who is indulging in this act that if he tries to resist arrest we use all possible means to put you out. If it means putting you out of action we will do it. He tried to swerve off the car to River Rwizi at Katete Bridge after grabbing the steering of the car so in that process he tried to get out and was shot in his foot that is how he got shot," Mr Kasasira explained.

Mr Kasasira said the suspects had specific mobile money agents whom they withdraw from who helped police get suspects.
"Some of them we tracked their lines to the mobile agents where they withdraw money from. They have specific agents so that is what helped us and the help of the community who come to us. This crime should be stopped because it affects people because when you do not have a number plate as police we impound your car unless you have come and report to police that your number plate has been stolen and we give you a grace period,” Mr Kasasira said.
The suspects were charged with stealing from a vehicle and demanding property with menace. They will be taken to court to answer those charges.

 

 

 

 

 

Wano e Buganda, ababba mmotoka ne bazitema sipeeya mubusubuzi, Poliisi ya Uganda ebakutte:

Police Flying Squad, kikoze ekikwekweto ku bavubuka bano abatalina mirimu mubwamakanika nga babba mmotoka ne bazitema sipeeya nebasubula.

By Musasi wa Bukedde

Added 6th April 2018

 

Ekikwekweto kyatandikidde ku mmotoka ya Erisa Kyaligonza, Isuzu Elf UAX 489J gye babba e Kagadi ne bagireeta e Kampala bwe baagikwatidde ng’etemeddwa sipeeya ne basangayo n’endala ezabbibwa mu bitundu eby’enjawulo. Kyaligonza yagambye nti, mmotoka ye baagibba mu kiro kya Paasika ku ssaawa 6:00 okuva ku ssundiro ly’amafuta ku kyalo Kenga we yali esula.

Yagasseeko nti, ddereeva waayo, Businge Mwesigye ng’akolagana ne God Mwesigye nga bayambibwako Livingstone Mawejje makanika okuva mu Ndeeba okuliraana FACO, be babba mmotoka era ye yategeera nkeera nti mmotoka ye yabbiddwa. “Ekyasinga okutuyamba ababbi mu kupapa baasuula akapapula okwali ennamba z’essimu kwe twatandikidde ne tukwata God ne munne ne batulagirira e Kampala mmotoka gye baagitunda,” Kyaligonza bwe yategeezezza.

Yagasseeko nti, batuukidde ku poliisi emu mu Kampala kyokka ne basooka bababuzaabuza okutuusa lwe baagenze mu Flying Squad eyabayambye okugenda mu Ndeeba n’ezingako Galagi zonna.

Mmotoka ya Kyaligonza n’endala eziteeberezebwa okubeera enzibe zaasangiddwaayo nga bamaze okuzitema sipeeya nga n’ebitundu ebirala bamaze okubitunda poliisi n’ekwata buli makanika gwe yasanzeeyo.

Sipeeya wa mmotoka nnya (4) ne bamutikka ku loole bbiri ne bamutwala ku CPS nga bwe bakyanoonya ebirala. Livingstone Mawejje yategeezezza poliisi nti, mmotoka yagigula ku God Mwesige ng’era baali bakkiriziganyizza obukadde 9 n’asooka amuwaako busatu ng’endala yali waakuzimuwa ng’amaze okutunda mmotoka.

Ono yagambye nti, eno si ye mmotoka gy’asookeddeko, yaakabba ezisoba mu ttaano ng’azitema sipeeya n’asaba abalala abaabadde bakwatiddwa bateebwe. Kino kijjidde mu kiseera nga poliisi yaakamala okufulumya lipooti ku mmotoka ezaabbibwa mu 2017. Lipooti eyakolebwa Flying Squad yalaga nti, emmotoka 105 ze zaali zibbiddwa ate bodaboda zaali 109.

Omuduumizi wa Flying Squad, Herbert Muhangi yagambye nti, ekikwekweto ekyakoleddwa kyabadde kyakunyweza muyiggo gwe baliko ku babbi b’emmotoka bonna. Yagasseeko nti baakutte abantu abasoba mu 10 wabula bwe baalonzeemu, baakizudde nti abeenyigira mu bubbi buno bali basatu era be bagenda okusigaza abalala babayimbule ku kakalu ka poliisi.

Galagi zonna omwasangiddwa ebyuma by’emmotoka enzibe, byassiddwaako kkufulu n’abaserikale okutuusa ng’okunoonyereza kuwedde.

 

 

 

 

 

A Notorious number plates thief has been arrested in Kirinya, Kampala:

March 18, 2018

Written by Alfred Ochwo

Police in Kirinya have arrested a notorious vehicle number plates thief who has been extorting money from residents of Kirinya, Bukasa, Kito, Namataba and parts of Bweyogerere towns. 

Tony Omaswa Ssemudu a resident of Kito was arrested with 14 stolen vehicle number plates. Number plates theft is on the rise because it brings in quick cash from the victims who fear traffic police penalties.

Tony Omaswa Ssemudu with the stolen number plates from cars 

According to police, the thieves target parked cars in the residential neighbourhoods and parking yards in the Metropolitan Kampala and other towns.

ASP Celestine Nujonzima, OC Station Kirinya police station said they have been having a sleepless night for the last three weeks following numerous complaints from the residents that Ssemudu was vandalising their cars, leaving behind his name and telephone and mobile money numbers demanding for money before giving back the plates.

"We got his photography from the Facebook and distributed to people and started tracking him, good enough today we arrested him and he produced 14 number plates," Nujonzima said.

Ssemudu confessed to stealing the number plates but claimed he was only doing it for survival purposes.

"I was one time arrested and taken to Bweyogerere police station, then, a lady came complaining that they had stolen her number plate and the suspect is demanding Shs 2 million for her to get back the number plate, this is when I picked up the idea because I have been sent away from our home, I do not have ways of getting money to sustain my welfare so this is how I get money for living," he said.

Ssemudu was later transferred to Kira police station from where he will be produced to court. Deputy ASP Maliserino Mulema, chief investigating officer at Kira police said Ssemudu faces 14 counts.

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One man's seven-year search for justice after buying a stolen luxury car from the URA legal car bond:

Maybach, a Car Bond off Ggaba Road in Uganda

March 11, 2018

 
By Othman Semakula
On September 1, 2011, Eric Alema walked into Maybach, a car bond off Ggaba Road in Kampala. He was shopping for a car and, indeed, found one that fitted his budget and specifications.

The car, a Range Rover Sport, would cost him Shs160m.

But this was the start of an almost seven-year ordeal that would bring him face-to-face with a rusty justice system that works through some individuals in government agencies such as police and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, to defeat justice.

A few weeks after Alema had taken possession of the car, he was alerted it was a stolen property from the United Kingdom (UK). This was corroborated by Interpol Uganda, which went ahead to impound the luxury vehicle.

The car had allegedly been brought into the country by Jack Arthur Richardson, a dual citizen of Uganda and UK, assisted by Moses Esimu, alias Momo, a Kampala businessman, who bonded it at Maybach Car Bond, owned by Wilson Kanyankole.

The three, Alema says, had connived to sell him a car, which they knew they had no “good title.”

Investigations revealed that the car had been smuggled into the country using fake documents with the help of some customs officials at Uganda Revenue Authority (URA).

Esimu has variously featured in police investigations, where with the assistance of a well-connected ring, is accused by different security agencies of smuggling stolen cars from Europe into Uganda.

In 2016, the then director of Interpol, Mr Asan Kasingye, told this newspaper that UK had requested Uganda to assist investigate Esimu and four other Ugandans over links with a UK citizen cited in a number of car jacks.

They are, according to documents seen then, being investigated over their alleged role in the theft of more than 53 luxury cars from UK between 2009 and 2011.

In the same year, Esimu had unsuccessfully filed a case in which he sought to stop the return of 36 stolen cars to UK.

The luxury cars, which included Ranger Rovers, Audis and BMWs, among others, had been impounded from different car bonds and individuals in Uganda.

Esimu declined an interview with Sunday Monitor and did not reply text messages sent to his known mobile telephone number.

However, during a previous investigation, Esimu told this newspaper that ‘we were wasting our time and we could go ahead and publish whatever we wanted.’

“Go ahead and write what you want. Nothing will happen to me. We run this country and I will look for you if you don’t stop writing your ‘crap’ about me,” he said then in a telephone interview.

Richardson denies ever bringing in the car but admits that the container in which the car was smuggled into Uganda was cleared under his name by a man he declined to name.
The man, who Richardson says is a UK citizen, had asked him to help him with his (Richardson) details to clear his goods, which included the stolen car.

“It’s been seven years. This was in 2011. I even don’t remember the guy who I gave my TIN and other details. Besides, I don’t live here (Uganda) and it has already been established that at the time of clearing the goods, I was nowhere near Uganda. How then could I have brought in this car?” Richardson says.

Kanyankole says he is being accused falsely as there was no way he could know that the car, which had been brought to his bond, was a stolen property.

“I have been exonerated by different investigations. How could I know that the car had been stolen? It had been cleared by URA. URA knows how and who brought it into the country. I provide safe storage of cars and I don’t investigate which car has been stolen,” Kanyankole said in an interview.

Alema negotiates

After the car had been impounded, Alema sought out BMW Financial Services, with the view of buying the car if it was available.

“They (BMW Financial Services) needed about £25,000 (Shs125m) to re-ship the car back to UK. To them, this wasn’t making financial sense so they floated it (put it up for sale) on the market,” Alema says.

“That is when I took advantage and negotiated to buy it. We settled at £20,000 (Shs100m) and that is how I regained it legally,” he says.

The car, according to Alema, was later released after BMW Financial Services wrote to Interpol Uganda, advising them to hand it to him. Alema has since sold it to another user.

Alleged plot to defeat justice

After Alema had legally taken possession of the car, he pursued the case with police as he needed a refund of his money.

Earlier, he had filed a case at both Interpol and Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP). His experience was not good.

“These people (the suspects) are connected. First, the case was transferred from KMP to CID (headquarters) in Kibuli without my involvement. I was surprised but they told me it was CID that had the capacity to investigate it,” he says.

The transfer, Alema says, could have been tactical as all pointers indicated a wider connivance.

In a January 8, 2018 complaint addressed to the deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and copied to the Inspector General of Police, Alema told of how his case had been mismanaged and unilaterally ordered to be closed without justification.

“(Betty) Khisa on June 15, 2015, in a correspondence … advised (Charles Babweteera) to close the case file because there appears to be no complaint,” he wrote in a complaint titled “mismanagement of a case of theft of vehicle and obtaining money by false pretence”.
Khisa is the deputy DPP in the prosecutions divisions. However, Alema wonders how Khisa could conclude that there was no complainant yet he had filed several complaints with both KMP and CID.

Connivance 

According to Alema, this, together with a string of incidents, pointed to possible connivance to frustrate a case.

“At some point Muwanga indicated some of the suspects had refused to cooperate (record statement). I wonder how a suspect would refuse to record a statement in which he is accused of a crime,” Alema says.

Joshua Muwanga was the investigating officer.

In a telephone interview, Muwanga admitted to have failed to conclusively investigate the case because there “had been lack of cooperation on the part of some suspects”.

He said he did whatever was within his powers to bring the suspects to book and could not be accused of conspiracy.

“Sometimes police officers are blamed for nothing. For sure I did what I needed to do, but I could not interview some of the suspects who were part of the investigation,” Muwanga said.

Alema wonders why Babweteera forwarded an incomplete file to the DPP well aware that key information from some suspects, who were known to police, was missing.

Babweteera, from the local government and anti-corruption department, who examined the file, denies any wrongdoing and says his only role was to examine the file and write a report.

“May be Alema failed to understand that we could not interview Richardson. I personally wrote to Interpol and Immigration to track down Richardson, who was the consignee of the container (in which the car was brought into Uganda). I can’t be the same person to have connived to frustrate the case,” he said.

However, Babweteera could not explain how a suspect (Richardson) who had been identified and put on red notice, could not be arrested yet he would come in and out of Uganda.

Subsequently, Khisa ordered for the closure of the file in a letter addressed to CID director.
Indeed, in a February 15, 2016 letter, Babweteera informed one of the suspects that the DPP had “advised us to close both files (at CID headquarters and KMP) and have them put away.”

However, he maintained in an interview with Sunday Monitor that the file was never closed.
“We were waiting for the arrest of Richardson who was out of our reach. We never closed the file,” he said.

DPP recalls file 

Earlier, Alema had filed a complaint with the Police Professional Standards Unit (PSU) to help him discipline some CID officers who he suspected to have frustrated the case.
“They (PSU) kept tossing me from one desk to another. I gave up and counted my loss,” he says.

After a torturous six years, Alema says, he had almost given up on the case until, through a friend, he chanced on Herbert Muhangi, the commandant of police’s Flying Squad Unit.
“I explained to him my dilemma, dismay and contempt for some police officers and the DPP. He looked disturbed and surprised. He told me this was unacceptable and he would personally investigate it,” Alema says.

In an interview, Muhangi told Sunday Monitor, the file had for six years had no progress, which raised suspicion.

“To some extent, I suspect there was a plan to frustrate the case. The investigating officers had told him (Alema) that it was a civil case yet there was some elements of criminality. That is why I guided Alema to raise a compliant with the DPP with the view of retrieving the file,” he said.

Subsequent progress

A few days later, according to Alema, the file had been retrieved from CID and there had been subsequent progress on the same.

In a January 9 letter, Sharon Akandwanirira, a senior State Attorney, ordered CID to forward the file after a complaint had been raised through the DDP Complaints Desk.
The DPP studied the file and William Byansi, the head of general case work department, wrote to KMP advising that the suspects be arrested and prosecuted.

“Upon extensive review of the evidence gathered in both files plus earlier opinions therein, we have found that the charge of obtaining money by false pretence is sustainable (against the suspect). You are therefore advised to prepare charges and forward them to RSA (Resident State Attorney) Buganda Road for subsequent proceedings,” Byansi wrote on January 15.

Subsequently, Richardson, Kanyankole, and Esimu were arrested and arraigned before Buganda Road Court on January 22 on charges of obtaining goods (money) by false pretence.

What the accused say 

According to Kanyankole, Maybach was never involved in the importation of the car or its registration.

“Alema knew Maybach was acting on behalf of Esimu. All the money we received from Alema was handed to Esimu, who acknowledged receipt,” he says.
Kanyankole believes that the case should be reviewed to ascertain how URA would clear a stolen car and establish who brought it in.

Richardson, the importer says: “I am going to sue Alema for defamation. He has been paying newspapers to write about me false stories. He says I connived with people to sell him a stolen car. But the people he talks about I have never met them. This is total rubbish”.

Interestingly, Richardson has already worked on an agreement to refund Alema’s money with already $10,000 deposited in his account.

 

 

 

 

 

Okulemererwa kwa Uganda Revenue Authority ne Motor Vehicle Insurance company okutereza emivuyo egiri mu "modern vehicle computer registration" ebidduka wano e Buganda kifuuse kwekolera sente eri abavubuka ba Uganda:

Omwaana omuto atakirizibwa kukola wano e Buganda nga ali ku Police olwokubba registration number plates za motor-car enyingi ddala.

Abadde abba nnamba puleeti za mmotoka e Mukono poliisi emukutte.

 

By Henry Nsubuga

 

Added 6th February 2018

 

 

POLIISI y’e Mukono ekutte n’eggalira omuvubuka abadde yagufuula omulimu okutemanga ennamba z’emmotoka n’azikweka olwo n’asaba bannyinizo ensimbi okuzibaddiza.

Aduumira poliisi y’e Mukono, Rogers Sseguya ategeezezza nti omuvubuka ono amannya ge bagasirikidde olw'okuba bakyaliko banne bwe babadde bakolagana naye be banoonya.

Sseguya agambye nti ono akwatiddwa mu kiro ng’ava okubba nnamba ppuleeti y’emmotoka mu kikomera ky’omutuuze ku kyalo Ssonde ng’ono y’atemezza ku poliisi n’esitukiramu n’emusanga.

Registration number plates enyingi ddala nga zilagibwa ku Police. Osasira bananyini bidduka abakyasasulira ebidduka bino okubigula nga tebalina registration cards ezebidduka bino okukakasa obwananyini. Kizibu nyo okununula plates zino okuva mu Police ya Uganda awatali kuwa nguzi empitirivu okukamala!
 
 

Agambye nti omuvubuka ono atemera mu myaka nga 16 abaddenga aliko omugagga gw’akola naye nga kati poliisi gw’ekyagezaako okulinnya akagere.

“Ono abasirikale baamusanze ng’alina obupapula obugamba nti bw’oba oyagala nnamba ppuleeti y’emmotokayo, weereza essente ku nnamba eno. Atutambuzza mu bifo byonna gye babadde baakweka ennamba z’abantu ne tuziggyayo nga ziri wano,” Sseguya bw’annyonnyodde.

Ategeezezza nti omwana ono bazzenga bamukwata mu misango egy’enjawulo omuli okubba sikulaapu n’emirala kyokka nga bw’atwalibwa mu kkooti ng’asindikibwa e Naguru mu Remand home gye basibira abaana ng’amala ekibonerezo ng’akomawo ng’atandikira we yakoma.

Poliisi ekutte omuvubuka ono n’abakulembera ekiro ne bagenda mu byalo eby’enjawulo gye babadde batema ennamba z’emmotoka z’abatuuze ne baziggyayo ng’era 16 ze zisangiddwa mu woofiisi ya DPC.

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Jjajja Omuganda agamba atya? Tozukusa mbwa yebase........

 

 

 

 

 

A Kalungu number plate thief has been arrested doing his distressing criminal trade against the motorists of Uganda:

By the New Vision 

Added 24th January 2018 

 

A 25-year-old man in Uganda, Andrew Ssekayega, is suspected to have been stealing number plates from motorists in the country and then asking the distressed victims for a ransom.

 

https://youtu.be/T3Vbl_0dA5M

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Uganda Police has finally decided to arrest an expert in stealing cars in the country:

 

 

The Global Positioning Systems are easily removed from cars by the many dodgy car garages surrounding the crime ridden International city of Kampala.

 

 

20 January, 2018
By JOSEPH KATO

UGANDA, KAMPALA- After a seven-year hunt, police have finally arrested a Briton accused of stealing and smuggling cars from Britain into Uganda.

The Flying Squad Unit (FSU), a violent crack unit of police arrested the suspect after he was tricked by Mr Eric Alema, a victim of his erroneous car deals helped by his friend who pretended as a car buyer.

The Briton who also possesses Ugandan passports, shot to limelight in 2011 when he stole and sold a UK made car to Mr Alema at Shs120 million but later discovered that its in-built Global Positioning System (GPS) vital for tracking the vehicle had been dismantled perhaps to evade detection by the manufacturer.

Mr Alema, a UN employee said he had been tossed up and down by police officers especially in crime intelligence and investigations departments such as Criminal Investigations Departments (CID) and Rapid Response Unit (RRU) now FSU.

“I was tossed for several years and police officers never bothered even when I could tell them that I had information about the suspects’ whereabouts. I think they had bribed many officers in CID. I was fed up of the police jokes, I went and secured a directive from DPP [Directorate of Public Prosecutions],” Mr Alema said.

Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Mr Luke Owoyesigyire, confirmed on Friday that the suspected was arrested by FSU on Friday morning at Bugolobi, a Kampala City suburb in Nakawa Division.

“We have him here [Kampala Central Police Station] and we are interrogating him. We want to get good information that will help us to arrest his accomplices. It is a big racket and his arrest is an opportunity for us to arrest the whole group,” Mr Owoyesigyire said.

After his second attempt to seek CID intervention failed in 2015, Mr Alema petitioned the DPP on January 8, 2018. The Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) responded a day later directing the Criminal Investigations Department to submit the two files; GEF/ 698/2011 and KMP GEF/113/2015 to his office for review.

Police submitted the files to DPP and upon reviewing; the DPP noted that there was satisfying evidence in the files to prosecute Mr Richardson Jack Arthur, a British citizens who and his two accomplices, Mr Wilson Kanyankole and Esimu Moses aka Momo.

“Upon an extensive review of the evidence gathered in both files plus the earlier opinions therein, we have found that charge of obtaining money by false pretences section 305 of the Penal Code Act is sustainable against Kanyankole Wilson, Esimu Moses alias Momo and Waswa Jack Arthur Richardson,” reads the DPP’s letter to CID.

The DPP added that the conduct of the suspects to receive the complainant’s money in exchange for a car to which they had no proper documents is criminal.

“The rightful owners of the car emerged and rightly asserted their claim to the car as a result of which the complainant suffered substantial loss. The suspects’ explanations do not add up,” Mr William Byansi stated in his response to CID on behalf of DPP.

He advised CID to prepare the charges and forward them to Resident State Attorney at Buganda Road Court for subsequent proceedings.

The cases of smuggling vehicles from UK to Uganda punched holes in Uganda Revenue Authority staff who allegedly connived with the alleged thieves to clear the stolen top-of-the-range cars.
stolen from overseas, particularly the United Kingdom, to enter Uganda undetected.
jkato@ug.nationmedia.com

 

 

 

 

A Stolen car has been abandoned in Jinja after being used in a robbery:

 

Abondoned stolen car which theives used to

Abondoned stolen car which theives used to steal money. PHOTO BY TAUSI NAKATO 

By TAUSI NAKATO

It has been a bad day for a 21 year old man identified as Moses Ogomo after being attacked by thugs and they took off with Shs3m that he was taking to Gulu to invest in his business.

Mr Ogomo, an employee of Giant Aluminum Company in Jinja, had gone to Centenary Bank to change his money into denomination but unfortunately they had no change.

He then decided to proceed to Bank of Africa but just a few meters from Centenary Bank, one of the thieves who were following him, forcefully opened the bag, grabbed the money from him and drove off.

“I went to Centenary Bank to change my Shs3m but when they told me they don’t have the denomination of Shs1000 [one million], Shs2000 [one million] Shs5000 [one million] and coins for Shs50,000, I decided to go to Bank of Africa but when I moved out I talked to a friend I found parked outside whether she can give me a lift but as we were still conversing, suddenly I felt someone opening my bag and took off with my money,’’ Mr Ogomo said.

He added: “I made an alarm and I jumped on a boda boda and I started chasing them but they knocked us down and I picked another one until when I found them on Alice Muloki road near Jinja central market after knocking a garbage pit and their vehicle got stuck.

Mr Faziru Bazibu, one of the eye witnesses said due to jam, the thieves [four] wanted to dodge it but fortunately they knocked a garbage pit at Jinja central market, abandoned the vehicle and took off after exchanging bitter words blaming the one who was driving of being a bad driver.

Jinja District Police Commander Mr Christopher Mbabazi said they have discovered the vehicle Registration number UBB 431S Harrier Lexus, which was being used by thugs. According to Mr Mbabazi, it was stolen from Nakumatt in Kampala, but it had tracking system.

He said through community policing, the boda boda men gave support to the victim by chasing the thugs until they abandoned the vehicle.

Mr Mbabazi warned residents against carrying money in denomination because it becomes heavy and thieves can easily identify it.
By press time, the vehicle was still parked at Jinja Central police station as police hunt for the thieves.
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Abadde yeefudde omukozi wa Uganda Revenue Authority nga akwata nnamba plate ze mmotoka police ye Kampala emukutte:

Added 3rd January 2018

Bya Reginah Nalunga, Bukedde.

 

 

OMUVUBUKA asumulula nnamba puleeti ku mmotoka z’abantu mu bitundu bya Kawempe n’emiriraano atutte abaserikale ku mwala n’abalaga w’azikweka n’asaba bannyini zo ssente.

 

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Kizza ku ddyo ng'alaga ezimu ku nnamba puleeti z'emmotoka z'abadde abba ku bannyini mmotoka n'amala n'abasaba ssente

 

 

Okumukwata, abadde atwala akapapula okuli ennamba y’essimu ye mu maka gye yabbye nnamba puleeti.

Ennamba y’essimu eno kw’alagira b’abbyeeko nnamba puleeti okusindikako ssente alyoke agibaddize! Hassan Ssekitoleko 20, omutuuze w’e Maganjo ku Lukadde aludde ng’anoonyezebwa poliisi ku bubbi bwa nnamba puleeti ye yakwatiddwa.

Ssekitoleko yasooka kuyingira mu kikomera ekimu n’asumulula nnamba puleeti UAU 801A ku mmotoka ya Hassan Hushan n’eya Vincent Kizza nnamba UAW 797T ab’e Jinja Kalooli.

Okuva lwe yabba nnamba puleeti zino abadde ateeka Kizza ne Hushan ku nninga bamuwe ssente abalagirire ekifo we yateeka nnamba puleeti z’emmotoka zaabwe.

Kizza, omukozi mu kitongole ky’obwannakyewa ekya PACE, yategeezezza nti, “Tuludde nga twemulugunya ku bubbi bwa nnamba puleeti mu kitundu kyaffe naye nga tetulina gwe tukwata kyokka ng’omuntu atubba alekawo ennamba y’essimu y’emu eri ku 0704431635.

Asaba ssente eziri wakati wa 50,000/- ne 100,000/- okutulagirira nnamba puleeti zaffe we ziri.

Yagambye nti nnamba puleeti ye n’eya muliraanwa we Hushan zabbiddwa mu biseera by’ennaku enkulu ne baggulawo emisango ku fayiro nnamba SD:REF 25/28/12/2017 ne SD:REF 20/28/12/2017 ku poliisi ye Kawempe.

Abatuuze balumirizza Ssekitoleko okuba mu kibinja ky’abamenyi b’amateeka abaabamazeeko emirembe mu biseera by’ennaku enkulu.

Ng’ali ku poliisi, Ssekitoleko yakkirizza okubba nnamba puleeti ku mmotoka z’abantu n’agamba nti abadde yaakabba nnamba puleeti ttaano.

Oluvannyuma yakulembeddemu poliisi n’abatwala mu bifo gy’abadde akweka nnamba puleeti z’abbye.

Yabawadde n’olukalala lwa banne ababba nnamba puleeti ku mmotoka n’asaba poliisi emusonyiwe kubanga yababuulidde amazima n’atabatawaanya. Poliisi yamuggalidde ng’alindiridde kutwalibwa mu kkooti.

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Munsi ezikola emmotoka zino abantu bakwewunya bwebakulaba nga osumululako number plate kummotoka. Bakulaba nga atuuse okusumulula kumotoka zaabwe ebipampagulo obitwale obiguze abakola esigiri! Mpozzi nga ennaku zino governmenti ya Uganda nga bweli mumawulire amangi enyo nga nayo yeyiya, nabano abaana ababbi bali mukweyiya.

 

 

 

 

Animal thefts worry residents of Hoima in Bunyoro Province:

By Robert Atuhairwe

 

Added 26th November 2017

 

Cattle farmers have been forced to sleep in kraals to protect their animals.

 

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The precious cattle of Bunyoro

CRIME IN HOIMA BUNYORO

Residents of Hoima in western Uganda have asked police and local leaders to find a solution for the rampant cattle theft in the area.


The residents are worried about the vice that has been on the rise since March this year, where animals - mostly cows - are being stolen.

Isaac Kirungi, a resident of Kigaaya village in Buhimba sub-county, whose entire herd of 20 cows was stolen early this month, argued that some farmers are now forced to sleep in the same building with their cattle, to protect their animals.

He asked the Police to intervene and investigate the thefts and bring the culprits to book. Kirungi noted that the act is likely to increase poverty and discourage people from rearing cattle.

Joyce Kabatalya, the Buseruka sub-county community development officer, said they receive complaints of cattle theft on a weekly basis.

Jane Kiiza a resident of Buhuka village in Kyangwali sub-county said her six cows, each valued at sh600,000, were stolen in October. He now sleeps in the catle kraal  to protect the remaining 20 cows.

Police recetly intercepted two trucks along the Hoima-Kampala Highway transporting cattle suspected to have been stolen from Hoima.

A source the stolen cows are slaughtered and the meat transported  to Kampala, where the demand is high.

Albertine region police spokesperson, Julius Hakiza, on Saturday said police had ramped up night patrols in the district.

He said police investigations reveal that in most cases, herdsmen connive with cattle thieves.

‘‘We appeal to the community leaders to work with us. Cattle keepers should report to the village secretary of defence or chairperson to register their herdsmen before  employing them,’’ he said. He said many cattle farmers employ strangers.

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The veterinary surgeons all over the world know that all farm animals are tagged without fail in this modern IT world. But when most cattle rearing traditional tribes on the African continent manage their ranches any how, animals will continously be stolen without trace, until Jesus Christ comes back. Very unprogressive African farm management indeed.

 

 

 

 

 

Poliisi ezudde emmotoka 36 ezabbibwa mu Kampala

By Eria Luyimbazi

 

Added 27th November 2017

 

POLIISI ya Flying Squad ekoze ekikwekweto mw'ezuulidde emmotoka 36 ezibadde zabbibbwa ku bannyinizo mu bitundu bya Kampala n'emirirwano.

 

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Omwogezi wa Poliisi mu ggwanga, Emilian Kayima ng'alaga ezimu ku mmotoka ezaanunuddwa ku babbi

 

POLIISI ya Flying Squad ekoze ekikwekweto mw'ezuulidde emmotoka 36 ezibadde zabbibbwa ku bannyinizo mu bitundu bya Kampala n'emirirwano.

Kino kiddiriridde poliisi okufuna emisango egyekuusa ku bubbi bwa mmotoka mu Kampala n'emiraano, ekyagiwalirizza okusitukiramu n'ekola ekikekweeto okuzizuula.

Omwogezi wa poliisi mu ggwanga, Emilian Kayima yagambye  nti okuva mu mwezi gwa August okutuuka mu November mmotoka 136 zabbiddwa mu kitundu kya Kampala n'emirirwano wabula abasirikale ba Flying squad ne basitukiramu okuzinoonya era baakazuulako 36.

"Waliwo okusomooza ku ku bubbi bwa mmotoka  obukudde ejjembe naddala mu Kampala n'emirirwano wabula abasirikale baffe tebatudde, bazinoonya era ezimu zizuuliddwa,"  Kayima bwe yagambye.

Yagambye nti oluvannyuma lw'okuzuula mmotoka zino poliisi ekyabuliddwako bannannyinizzo, bakyatubidde n'emmotoka 25  olw'okubulwako bannyinizo.

Yategezezza nti obukoddyo ababbi bwe bakozesa okubba mmotoka ensangi zino mulimu okulondoola ebifo mwezisimbiddwa nga ku mabaali g'enguudo, okuyingira mu bikomera ne bazibbayo, okuzipangisa oluvannyuma ne bazibuzaawo ne bazitunda e Congo, South Sudan ate endala ne bazitwala mu galagi gye bazitemamu sikulaapu oba sipeeya.

Yagambye nti ekiremesezza okuvunaana ababbi ba mmotoka mu kkooti kwekuba nti obujulizi bubuka olw'abantu be bazibbako obutayagala kugenda mu kkooti okubawaako obujulizi obubaluma, ekibawa ekyanya ne bateebwa ate ne bakomawo ne batandikira we baakoma.

Kayima yasabye  ababiddwaako mmotoka okwanguwa okuloopa ku poliisi nga balina ebiwandiiko ebizikwatako kiyambe mu kusasaanya amawulire mu bwangu.

 

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Banange wano e Buganda okukyusa amanya ga nanyini motoka kizibu ddala. Kiyinza nokutwala emyaka. Ye no bwotekako nabano abaana ababbi ba registration number negubula asala. Ekivaamu nga emotoka otereka waka. Nga otambuza taxi oba boda boda. Kale ye omubbi akusemberera mumotoka yo nga okugamba nti tolina na bwananyini bwa motoka era eno emotoka yiye. Akusonze mu emundu. Eno ababbi banne 3 nga bayingira motoka ne mundu nti vuga tugende ku police tukulope bwewabba emotoka yaffe. Tuli mukufa banange bwotabalekera motoka nebatwala!

Emotoka aba URA nabo tebakiriza kuteeka manya gananyini motoka ku Registration card. Bateekako ga agent akuletede emotoka. Mbu okomawo mumwezi gumu ne agent wo nemitwalo 50 Uganda shillings okukyusa amanya ga nanyini motoka. Wano wempera Police amagezi. Bagende mu Uganda Revenue Authority banonye ba agent abatekebwa ku motoka nga bananyini zo.

Bino bitama munsi enjavu etakola motoka neyetekesawo amateeka agatalimu makulu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bazzukulubabuganda Editor's car stolen at gunpoint near the junction of the Kampala Northern By-pass and Gayaza road in broad day light 5 months ago:

 

 

26 November, 2017

 

 

Uganda Registration: UAN 280C Honda civic HRV. Estate Silver colour.

 

 

 

Ring Number:0701896096 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Uganda, A Teenager is held by Police over the theft of vehicle number plates:

1st November, 2017

Written by URN

The suspect with the stolen numberplates

Police in Bweyogerere are holding a 16-year-old boy for alleged theft of vehicle number plates. 

Luke Owesigyire, the deputy spokesperson, Kampala Metropolitan Police, says the teenager suspect was picked up over the weekend following numerous complaints from motorists about the theft of their number plates.  

Owesigyire says the suspect has confessed sneaking into people's homes to steal the number plates.

"After plucking off the number plates, the suspect leaves behind his contacts advising the vehicle owners to call him back and pay him between Shs 50,000 and 300,000 to recover them," he said.

The theft of number plates have been on the rise in different parts of the country. 

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It is surprising that the URA is silent over this matter. Uganda Revenue Authority has the monopoly to print out these number plates all over the country.


And as any one can see together with this young man these cheap number plates are ill fitting on the vehicles. The metal substance used to make them is as soft as cardboard. The URA designs the short square size number plates to be installed on where a vehicle needs a long plate number plate. 

They are easily taken off with just one blow with a stone. But their price is astronomical and to obtain a replacement, it takes one year and about 1 million Uganda shillings. That is why black marketeering in motor vehicles is big business in all  sorts of ways.

Police in Uganda have reported 5 cars are stolen every day in the country:

1st November, 2017

Written by Zurah Nakabugo

The police seem to want the motorists to do their own policing as they cannot cope with this increased crime.

 

A spike in crime ushered in by the festive season has persisted, with up to five vehicles stolen countrywide every day, the police has said.

Herbert Muhangi, the commandant of the police Flying Squad, a violent crime crack unit, said 592 vehicles were stolen last year (2016) countrywide – more than  double the number (264) stolen in 2015.

“There is an increase in the theft of vehicles because people don’t listen to our advice. We urge them to install the Global Positioning Car Tracking System (GPS), which protects the vehicle by monitoring it online everywhere it moves worldwide,” he said.

Muhangi said only two per cent of vehicles in the country have GPS devices installed.

“GPS [devices] are sold for from $200 [Shs 700,000] to $500 [Shs 1m] depending on the type you want but people fear buying them thinking they are expensive yet they own cars worth about Shs 50 million,” he said.

Commandant Flying Squad unit Herbert Muhangi

He added that all types of vehicles are targeted especially new four-wheel drives and company or organization vehicles.

“After stealing the new vehicles, they [thieves] change the chassis number, number plates, colour and its interior to make it difficult for the owner to recognize. The old vehicles are dismantled into spare parts and sold to different markets like Kisekka market and motor garages in Kampala, Kisenyi, Mengo, Nakulabye, Bwaise and other suburbs,” Muhangi said.

He said other stolen vehicles are driven across borders and sold to unstable countries such as the DR Congo. Muhangi said only 58 percent of vehicles stolen last year were recovered, while in 2015, 70 percent were recovered.

He said currently, car thieves are raiding homes at night. Last week, he said, four car thefts were reported at different police stations within Kampala.

VICTIMS SPEAK

James Kayondo, an auditor in Kampala, and Enid Sajjabi, an accountant at Makerere University, had their cars stolen last week. Kayondo said his vehicle, a Toyota Spacio UAS 085A, was stolen from his home in Bunga-Kawuku on January 13 at around 2.45am. He said he woke up at around 1:30am and heard dogs barking in the neighborhood.

“I peeped through the windows but I didn’t see anything. After 30 minutes, when dogs stopped barking, I heard someone start my vehicle and when I peeped through the window again, I saw the gate opened wide and two people were inside my car driving it off,” he said.

Kayondo said he made an alarm and neighbours woke up. Kayondo and his neighbours got into another vehicle and chased to the thugs.

“Unfortunately we never got them and when we reported the theft to Ggaba police they also started tracking it but in vain,” he said.

Sajjabi, the accountant, said her maroon Toyota Noah registration number UAY 094N was also stolen at 3am last week from her home in Komamboga, along Gayaza road.

“I don’t know how they entered our fence but when I woke up, I saw the vehicle moving out. The thugs gave poison to the dogs and they died before they entered,” she said.

She reported the case to Central police station (CPS) in Kampala and Sekanyonyi police post.

“However, they assured us that the vehicle has not yet crossed the borders and it might be hidden in garages in Kampala,” Sajjabi said.

Police says other vehicles are stolen from streets and parking yards. Others are stolen from washing bays and motor vehicle garages using duplicate keys. 
Muhangi advised people to deal only with garage or washing bay owners, but not workers.

“Last month, we arrested a car washer who confessed to have given out his client’s keys to thieves to duplicate them. The thugs promised him Shs 200,000 for the job. After washing the vehicle, thugs trailed his client from the washing bay and they stole his vehicle,” Muhangi said.

Muhangi said that last year, using the GPS, they recovered a vehicle which had been dismantled from Kisekka market. He said it was stolen from Kenya.

“When Kenyan police informed us, we started trailing it on the GPS system until we found it,” he said.

Muhangi advised people to park cars in gazetted areas with maximum security and CCTV cameras. He said car owners should install GPS devices and alarms.

“Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) should ensure that every vehicle that enters the country has a GPS like in Europe, every vehicle has an airbag, you can’t drive a vehicle there without an airbag for safety of passengers in case of an accident,” he said.

According to Muhangi, police is still stuck with over 50 recovered vehicles parked at different police stations. The owners, he said, would not recognize them because the thugs changed them. 

zurah@observer.ug

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