The Mulanda sub county chairperson Jimmy Othieno Stones welcomed the police station noting that it’s going to help combat crimes in the area and this will facilitate their bid for getting district. The entire west Budama County has no functional police station and people have been relying on Tororo police Station for police services.
Nicholas Odoi, the Osia sub county LCIII chairperson says within this week alone, over 10 homes have been broken into and thugs run away with goats and fowls among other things.
Moses Mugwe, the Bukedi South Region Police Spokesperson, says many communities that are in distant areas and rural trading centers are behaving in total disregard of the COVID-19 preventive measures.
The recruitment exercise that was held on Saturday at Tororo Police Primary School grounds also attracted candidates from the neighboring regions of Mbale and Bukedi North who tried to sneak in using forged National Identity Cards.
The refugees who included 22 children and five adults fled fighting in North Kivu Province, Rucuru village and ended up in Abakiriza church in Kampala who sheltered them for some time but later were put in a bus and they ended up in Malaba border as they were seeking for asylum in Kenya.
John Paul Okanya, the LC 3 Chairperson Osukuru Sub county and his Rubongi counterpart, Solomon Oketcho both claim the key installations fall under their jurisdiction.
Police in Tororo Municipality are holding a security guard suspected of shooting to death his colleague. Emmanuel Oketch (30) was deployed by JAG Security Company at Uganda College of Commerce Tororo - UCC located in North Budama Sub County in Tororo district.
A family dispute has seen a police officer Leopold Ben Odoi , No. 35296, attached to Butaleja Central Police Station, go more than three years without his salary.
Police also recovered several bags of dried marijuana, marijuana sticks, smoking tubes, stolen mattresses, plastic drums used for storing and fermenting marijuana and a mortar for pounding marijuana leaves.
After thorough consultations with immigration officials, the refugees could not be registered from Malaba since they accessed the country through another border post yet people seeking political asylum can only be registered from the point of entry
A heavy joint police and military anti-terrorism squad has been deployed the border areas of Malaba and Busia. The squad is made up of both uniform and plain-clothed security operatives, Imunna Muluga, the Resident District Commissioner – RDC of Busia says.
A Kenya National has been arrested in Uganda while trying to join the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) during the just concluded nationwide recruitment exercise.
A British national is in police custody after her estranged Ugandan lover accused her of selling a piece of land without his consent. The couple are in the midst of a bitter separation with Misrah Carolyne accusing Owidi David of stealing from her.
The Director of Global Development Cooperation savings and credit society in Tororo, Fredrick Okiru on Wednesday requested the Police not to release him fearing that his clients would kill him.
