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AIRPORT POLICE COMMANDANT APOLOGIZES TO IRATE TRAVELER
In a rather unprecedented but nevertheless courageous and highly-commendable move, the commandant of the Aviation Police at Entebbe International Airport issued a public apology to an angry traveler, printed in the country’s leading daily “The New Vision.” Days earlier, another letter to the editor was published complaining about three police officers behaving badly and by insinuation trying to extract a bribe over wrongful parking and other alleged offenses, including “talking back” to the officers concerned and “not being repentant.”
Senior Superintendent of Police Herman Owomugisha, however, not tolerating such alleged behavior and the subsequent smearing of the image of the aviation police by errant officers, responded publicly, including offering his mobile phone number, which the aggrieved traveler, and others finding themselves in similar situations, should call to provide immediate remedy. This outstandin
(eTN) – The new road in Uganda from Fort Portal, located at the northeastern side of the Rwenzori Mountains to Semliki and the border with the Congo DR, will upon completion open up this part of Ugand
(eTN) – The new road in Uganda from Fort Portal, located at the northeastern side of the Rwenzori Mountains to Semliki and the border with the Congo DR, will upon completion open up this part of Uganda, for locals as much as for tourist visitors.
Recent information from the Uganda Wildlife Authority confirms that over 80 percent of the road from Fort Portal over Bundibugyo to Lamia is now complete and this allows swift access into the Semliki Toro Game Reserve, where Wildplaces Africa operates their Semliki Safari Lodge in one of the most pristine wilderness areas of Uganda, extending from the escarpment into the Rift Valley to the shores of Lake Albert. Birdlife in the reserve is prolific, largely as the result of several habitats merged into one reserve as is the number of wildl