Dr. Johnson Byabashaija, the Commissioner General Uganda Prisons Service, says they expect to officially open the facility in October or November this year.
Reverend Captain Isaac Bakka, a veteran journalist, ex-soldier and clergyman was blindfolded from his first day of abduction until Wednesday last week when he was taken to Kireka Police Station. According to Bakka, 68, who is currently being held in Luzira Upper Prison, he was received by three police officers at Kireka Police Station who informed him that they had received him from Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence CMI.
Luzira Upper prison lacks enough sauce pans to prepare meals for inmates, legislators sitting on the Public Accounts Committee PAC have learnt. Gerald Karuhanga, the vice chairperson of Parliaments Public Accounts Committee wanted to know why inmates are served posho at midday and then beans at 2pm. This is when Robert Munanura, the commissioner in charge of custodial services, told MPs that they have few sauce pans.