Police in Gomba and Sembabule districts are investigating a case in which unidentified people stormed President Museveni’s farm in Kisozi and vandalised a wire mesh fence.
Police in Gomba and Sembabule districts are investigating a case in which unidentified people stormed President Museveni’s farm in Kisozi and vandalised a wire mesh fence.
According to police, the thieves reportedly raided the heavily guarded farm last Sunday night and made off with the wire mesh fence measuring about one kilometre.
Mr Ronald Were, the officer in charge of criminal investigations in Sembabule District, confirmed the incident but said no arrests have been made yet.
“We are currently conducting investigations into the matter and we are hopeful that the suspects will be apprehended according to the information gathered so far,” Mr Were said in an interview on Wednesday.
About the farm
The President’s Kisozi farm is located in Gomba District; about 100 kilometres west of Kampala, but also stretches to neigbouring Sembabule District and on it are long-horned cattle.
The President likes to take visiting heads of State and foreign dignitaries there for talks and excursions. Daily Monitor has also reliably learnt that the Inspector General of Police, Gen Kale Kayihura, (IGP), picked interest in the case and has since visited both districts to check on the progress of the investigations.
“The IGP came this way [Sembabule and Gomba] to investigate into the matter,” a reliable police source in Gomba, which preferred anonymity, revealed to Daily Monitor on Wednesday.
However, police spokesperson, Mr Andrew Kaweesi, said he was not aware of both the theft on the President’s farm and Gen Kayihura’s intervention. “I don’t know about the theft at Kisozi farm and don’t have any information about his [Kayihura]visit there ,” Mr Kaweesi said during a telephone interview on Wednesday.
Thieves have made it a tendency to steal from the President’s Kisozi farm.
In September, police in Gomba District, arrested three people over stealing cattle from the farm and one of them was a worker on the farm.
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