While addressing a rally at Kahunde primary school playground, Isunga sub county in Kagadi district on Friday, Museveni stated that he had received several complaints about the evictees.
According to the residents and leaders, there is an urgent need to tighten the security surveillance network on Lake Albert's waters and along the shores to ensure that no wrong elements take advantage of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to sneak into the region and cause havoc.
They were arrested from Mwintazige town council following complaints from residents especially the business community regarding the escalating thefts and attacks by suspected criminals in the area.
The suspected criminals were rounded up during an intelligence-led operation conducted by the Uganda Police and Uganda People Defence Forces-UPDF soldiers.
The members argued that although the primary objective of the platform was to address drought in arid and semi-arid lands, it was evident that the other climatic excesses that they sought to expand the focus to were also a perennial problem that disrupted life whenever tragedies occurred.
The exercise simulated a situation involving flight No. AF 347, with 40 passengers and three crew members on board, notified Air Traffic Control of a bomb threat note discovered by a member of the crew in the aircraft lavatories, as the aircraft was taxiing for take-off.
In an exclusive interview with Uganda Radio Network (URN) Sam Twiineamazima, the Acting Savannah regional police publicist, says that terrorists target such events.
Julius Hakiza, the Albertine Regional Police spokesperson, explains that the heavy deployment aims to provide necessary security to the people in the Albertine region, safeguarding them from potential attacks by suspected ADF rebels.
Micheal Longole, the Mt. Moroto regional police spokesperson has expressed gratitude for the project saying the police have for long been grappling with a shortage of accommodation for their personnel.
At the spot of the bomb blast, between the IPS building and Queens Chambers, everything remains intact including the wreckage of the five cars that got burnt and motorcycles lying on the ground. The newspaper stands and tree branches have all been preserved.
According to the Managing Director Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) the land belonging to Uganda Railways is not secure, and they are in the process of recovering all the land occupied illegally whether people have titles or not.
Moroto Resident District Commissioner Peter Lochap says that on several occasions, he has been alerted about positive persons on the streets, some driving their cars and others on foot freely mixing with the unsuspecting public.
Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) newly elected representatives in Parliament have defended their stay in Parliament saying they will play a key role in developing policies related to security.
Amuriat was today appearing before the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee which is investigating cases of electoral violence that were witnessed and experienced in the recent general elections. Amuriat, also the president of the Forum for Democratic Change-FDC party told the committee that he experienced untold humiliation and brutality, all through the campaign.
The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said that COVID-19 pandemic has provided a pretext for repressive security responses that curtail civic space and media freedom.
The Ugandan border with the Democratic Republic of Congo was closed in March, as part of a lockdown occasioned by the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Subsequently, the government heavily deployed teams comprising Uganda Peoples Defense Forces-UPDF and Uganda Police Force to guard the closed Border along the shores of Lake Albert.
So far, 215 people in DRC have tested positive to coronavirus disease since march 10, when the first case was reported. The country has also lost 20 people to the disease, according to records by the World Health Organisation-WHO.
