By Gerald Businge on December 7, 2016
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![MPs want Hoima Police station closed due to dilapidated staff houses. MPs want Hoima Police station closed due to dilapidated staff houses.](https://www.weinformers.com/wp-content/themes/stylebook/timthumb.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.weinformers.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F12%2Fpolice2.png&q=90&w=795&h=470&zc=1)
The Parliamentary Committee on human rights has urged the police leadership to urgently demolish houses used by Mobile police officers in Hoima district, saying the structures pose a risk to the officers and their property. While on a fact finding mission recently, the committee led by Jovah Kamateka, who is also the Mitooma Woman MP, […]
By Gerald Businge on May 27, 2015
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Over 300 Ugandans are rotting in the Democratic Republic of Congo prisons over different crimes without facing justice. This was disclosed by Uganda’s top envoy to DR Congo, Ambassador James William Kinobe, while appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Public accounts chaired by the Woman MP for Serere District Alice Alaso. He said that most of the arrested […]
By Walakira on September 18, 2012
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The second Biennial Africa Correctional Services Association conference will open in Kampalaon October 2nd, 2012. The conference will be hosted by theUganda prisons service. The Commissioner General of Uganda Prison Service, Johnson Byabashaija says that the conference will run from October 2 to 5 under the theme, “Enhancing Community Responsive Correctional Service Delivery inAfrica”. […]
By Walakira on September 7, 2012
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Stephen Kiprotich, who is the 2012 London Olympics Marathon gold medalist, has been promoted from the rank of Prison Warder to Assistant Superintendent of Prisons in recognition of his recent performance at the Olympics games. Kiprotich has gone into the books of history as the first Ugandan serving Prisons Officer to get promoted to […]
By Walakira on August 2, 2012
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Following an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda, the Uganda Prisons authorities banned all visits to prisons including Luzira prison. But the FDC president Col. Kiiza Besigye says this could be a ploy by the government to block the assistance FDC has been sending to political prisons whom president Museveni’s government imprisoned without trial. However […]
By Gerald Businge on March 22, 2012
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President Museveni and his government are to build a new prison meant to decongest Luzira Prison in Mityana district. The sources in government tell us that the new prison will cost President Museveni and his government over 8 million shillings. Uganda Prison’s boss, Johnson Byabashaija says that the new prison will address the issue of […]
By Gerald Businge on February 15, 2012
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Members of Parliament want government to enter into treaties with other countries to repatriate Ugandans prisoners currently held in foreign prisons. Mukono Municipality MP, Betty Nambooze Bakireke notes that countries such as Malaysia and China are holding in custody several Ugandans on charges of drug trafficking, murder and other crimes. Nambooze says efforts by some […]
By Gerald Businge on January 17, 2012
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The Leader of the women league of the Forum for Democratic Chnage, Ingrid Turinawe has been released by court. This is after she was arrested and charged in court after her standoff with the police who blocked her accessing the city centre. Turinawe was stopped from attending a press conference by the Activists for Change, […]