DPC MPIGI HELD OVER THEFT OF UGX 5 M EXHIBIT

By;Ben Musanje

The police Professional Standards Unit (PSU) have arrested SP Kimera Seguya, the DPC for Mpigi over theft of exhibit money amounting to UGX five millions.

According to the PSU spokesperson, Vincent Ssekate, they sent in a squad to arrest the DPC following a complaint from one of the residents on the police conduct at the Mpigi Police Station and they recovered Shs5 million from Sseguya which was supposed to be receipted as exhibit but was not done.

The DPC was arrested with and Investigating Officer, Twesigemukama Abraham who are now detained at Kira road police.

In related incident, the land desk at Mbale police station has been disbanded over mismanagement of cases.

According to Ssekate, the numerous complaints to PSU by members of the public against police officers on the land desk prompted an audit at the station and found over 17 case files unattended to due to corruption, poor supervision and case mismanagement.

The OC CID Onesmus Mwesigwa and the officer in charge of the land desk, Isaac Were have been suspended and ordered to report to PSU for questioning.”