Daily Monitor
Wednesday March 03 2021
People line up at for work permits and passports at the Internal Affairs ministry offices in Kampala on February 22. PHOTO | RACHEL MABALA.
Summary
Foreign professionals, like medical practitioners, accountants and auditors, will be charged $3,000 (Shs11m), which is $500 (Shs1.8m) lower than what they were paying initially per year.
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The work permit fees have been reduced to $400 (Shs1.5m) per year, from $2,500 (Shs9.2m).
“The reduced fees will attract investors in the country,” Mr Jacob Siminyu, the spokesperson of the Internal Affairs ministry, said.
The revised fees are contained in the statutory instrument No 12 of the Uganda Citizenship and Immigration Control (fees) Regulations, 2021.
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UPDF decline to finger-print guns
Friday February 26 2021
Summary
The acting Director of Forensic Services, SP Andrew Mubiru, recently said the ballistic database system had enabled police link firearms to 156 different crimes across the country since finger-printing of guns started in late 2018.
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The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) have not embarked on finger-printing guns nearly 32 months after President Museveni in his capacity as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, ordered all firearms to be forensically recorded.
Gen Museveni issued the directive in June 2018 following a spate of killings in which shooters on motorbikes gunned down high-profile citizens and fled without trace.
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We don’t know about missing persons - Police
Tuesday February 16 2021
Summary
More than 100 people were abducted by security personnel driving Toyota vans commonly known as drones ahead of last month’s General Election.
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Police have distanced themselves from the operations in which hundreds of people were abducted by armed security operatives and taken to unknown detention centres.
Several high senior officers, who declined to be named for fear of reprimand, said yesterday that police neither participated in the arrests in different parts of the country nor do they know who is under detention or where they are held.