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By Felix Twinomugisha

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In Rukungiri

Police in Rukungiri are holding five students of Makererere College of Business and Computer Studies Rukungiri Campus alleged to have killed a 23 year Old fellow they suspected to be a thief.

By press time, the students were in custody at Rukungiri police station pending their appearance in court.

The Rukungiri District Police Commander Moses Nanoka identified the suspects as Elias Abaho, Owen Tumuramye, Andrew Nuwamanya, Benson Akatusasibwa and Goodman Jehoshaphat.

The five were cornered up on Sunday for allegedly assaulting the deceased Crescent Ahereza, a resident of Rwamunyinya village in Masya parish in Nyakagyeme Sub County in Rukungiri district on Monday December 2, 2019

One of the suspects while recording police statement said Ahereza was caught inside the male students hostels stealing clothes.

It is alleged that Students attacked Ahereza jointly with his comrade, Kenneth Niwenyesiga and later handed them over to Rukungiri police station on December 3, 2019.

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 In Kampala

Police in Kampala have detained a Nigerian national for allegedly holding hostage three female students of Makerere University Business School (MUBS) for over 10 hours.

Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga, said on Monday that on Saturday the suspect invited his Ugandan girlfriend, who he met five days ago to his home in Mutungo, Nakawa Division, in Kampala.

She reportedly visited along with two other female friends identified.
Mr Enanga said around 9pm, the students asked him to leave but he insisted that they stay around.
He reportedly confiscated their mobile phones around 10pm, locked them inside the house and left.

However, one of the girls had an extra phone, which she used to inform her other colleagues what had befallen them around midnight.

The students rushed to Kinawataka Police Station and filed a case explaining how their colleagues were being held captive by a man.

Kinawataka police sent a message to Jinja Road Policing Division, which immediately launched a hunt for the students throughout the entire night of Saturday.

However, the suspect returned around 7am on Sunday morning and released the trio. Mr Enanga said since police was already on the hunt, it traced the phones once they were returned to the students and switched on.

Police collaborating with victims located the suspect’s home leading to his arrest for unlawful confinement.

According to Enanga,the suspect claimed that he hadn’t abducted the students but he kept them in his house for fear that they could be hurt by thugs in the area if he had allowed them to move alone during night hours.

Police has cautioned young adults to be careful, saying the dating landscape has changed nowadays because anything evil can happen at any time.

The three girls have already recorded statements.

Early this year, two Congolese female students were found dead and locked inside a rented house at Kakeeka Mengo, Rubaga Division, in Kampala.

They were allegedly killed by their fellow Congolese male student accusing one of them of cheating on him.

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In Bushenyi

The Bushenyi district woman MP Hon Mary Karoro Okurut has today received the lists of people to benefit in the skilling program from different Parishes in Bushenyi district.

The names were submitted by the parish and sub county coordinators who met the MP at her home in Bushenyi town, Bushenyi district.

The skilling program was started by President Museveni in order to fight poverty and unemployment in Uganda.

Talking to Press shortly after the meeting on Monday, Karooro who doubles as the minister for General duties in the office of the prime minister said that the beneficiaries are trained in different practical skills including, catering, building and construction, tailoring, fashion and design, hair dressing among others.

Hon Karoro said that the program started with 800 girls who are now working, then 1400 boys and has now extended to Parish Level to benefit all the people including both the trainees and the trainers.

Some of the parish and sub counties coordinators who talked to our reporter thanked Hon Karoro for supporting such developmental programs and vowed to continue registering the people who want to benefit from it.

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