Tag Archives: CCTV

COMMENT | Samson Tinka |  On March 31, 2021 social media, as much as the traditional print, TV and radio, were all awash with stories related to a short video clip extracted from a CCTV recording of a raid on a Chinese residence located in Kyambogo lower estate Edinburg Avenue. Thugs, …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  It is seven months since, President Yoweri Museveni, commissioned the National Closed Circuit Television – CCTV Command Centre based at Naguru police headquarters. But the public had never been granted the chance to tour and assimilate with what is done inside. On a bright afternoon, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thugs took advantage of the mandatory wearing of face masks to rob sh300 million from three workers of Amal Forex Bureau in Kisenyi, Kampala. As a result, Closed Circuit Television – CCTV security cameras could not swiftly identify facial features of the suspects. Kampala …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There was chaos in different city suburbs on Monday as police battled People Power activists protesting the death of their colleague, who they said was knocked by a police patrol vehicle. Ritah Nabukenya, 28 who was commonly known as Priya in People Power circles …

  Beijing, China | AFP | China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak that has stricken hundreds of people, state media reported Friday. The facility in the central city of Wuhan is expected …

Shanghai, China | AFP | Chinese state media warned Monday that Mesut Ozil’s criticism of the country’s treatment of its Uighurs will have “serious implications” for Arsenal, stirring a backlash that saw the English football club’s weekend match pulled from Chinese TV. A Global Times editorial slammed what it called a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Martin Okoth Ochola, to sack all non-committed police officers. Museveni, who was speaking on Thursday after the commissioning of the National Command Centre at Naguru police headquarters, said with available technology, crime won’t …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eight police officers are standing trial before the Police Disciplinary court for negligence in connection to the kidnap and subsequent murder of social worker, Maria Nagirinya and her driver, Ronald Kitayimbwa. The duo was kidnapped outside Nagirinya’s main gate on August 28 in Lungujja, …

    Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has fired manning the CCTV camera centres for failing to act fast following the recent murders in the capital Kampala. “The officer at Kibumbiro Police post- Busega says that she tried to contact the 999 but the 999 was …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three suspects, including a driver captured on CCTV, have been arrested for the kidnap and subsequent murder of social worker, Maria Nagirinya. Nagirinya and her driver Ronald Kitayimbwa were kidnapped on August 28, outside her home in Lungujja, on the outskirts of Kampala, …