UPDF deployed at Kigo
Apr 11, 2003
THE UPDF has reinforced security at Kigo Prison, where top criminal suspects are detained, to prevent more from escaping.
By Vision reporters
THE UPDF has reinforced security at Kigo Prison, where top criminal suspects are detained, to prevent more from escaping.
The move follows the escape of 15 suspected gangsters on Wednesday, through a hole they drilled in the prison wall.
The gang was arrested by Operation Wembley between last June and February over involvement in terrorism, armed robbery and murder.
They were charged and remanded by the General Court Martial.
The chief of Military Intelligence, Col. Noble Mayombo, yesterday downplayed the UPDF’s move to the facility saying, “We are trying to do something together.â€
Police chief Maj. Gen. Katumba Wamala said none of the suspects had been re-arrested but added, “the spoor has been discovered.â€
“We shall arrest them. We know where some of them are,†he asserted.
They escaped through a cavity drilled in a wall which had been weakened because they urinated on it constantly.
There were only two prison warders guarding at the time.
Mayombo blamed the escape partly on the old structures, which he said were built in the 1920s.
He said the government should build better prison structures to handle notorious criminals.
“You can only detain chicken and cattle thieves in the current prisons but not hardcore criminals,†Mayombo said.
The New Vision yesterday established that dozens of Military Police personnel were deployed to re-enforce security outside Kigo prison.
THE UPDF has reinforced security at Kigo Prison, where top criminal suspects are detained, to prevent more from escaping.
The move follows the escape of 15 suspected gangsters on Wednesday, through a hole they drilled in the prison wall.
The gang was arrested by Operation Wembley between last June and February over involvement in terrorism, armed robbery and murder.
They were charged and remanded by the General Court Martial.
The chief of Military Intelligence, Col. Noble Mayombo, yesterday downplayed the UPDF’s move to the facility saying, “We are trying to do something together.â€
Police chief Maj. Gen. Katumba Wamala said none of the suspects had been re-arrested but added, “the spoor has been discovered.â€
“We shall arrest them. We know where some of them are,†he asserted.
They escaped through a cavity drilled in a wall which had been weakened because they urinated on it constantly.
There were only two prison warders guarding at the time.
Mayombo blamed the escape partly on the old structures, which he said were built in the 1920s.
He said the government should build better prison structures to handle notorious criminals.
“You can only detain chicken and cattle thieves in the current prisons but not hardcore criminals,†Mayombo said.
The New Vision yesterday established that dozens of Military Police personnel were deployed to re-enforce security outside Kigo prison.