By Ben Musanje
8th April 2019
Police has refuted allegations of having paid a ransom of USD 500,000 (1.8billion Shillings), for the release of an American tourist and a safari guide who were kidnapped by gunmen in Queen Elizabeth National Park in South Western Uganda last Tuesday.
Addressing the media at Naguru in Kampala, the Police spokesperson Fred Enanga says that the US tourist Kimberly Endicott 35, and the guide Jean-Paul Mirenga were rescued by a joint security operation from an abandoned hideout in Kinsasha, Eastern side of Democratic Republic of Congo.
However, Enanga confirms that a team of security operatives is working with DRC government in the search for the kidnappers said to be hiding in the thick forests of Kinsasha in Congo.
By press time, the Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola was awaited to handover the American tourist to US Ambassador at the American Embassy in Kampala today.
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