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  Police raids ‘same-sex wedding’ 44 arrested 1 on the run. They’ll be charged with spreading ‘infectious disease’ Police in Uganda have arrested 44 people who attended a “same-sex wedding”, insisting they were spreading “infectious disease”, but activists say it was simply a “peaceful gathering”. According to police, one who was identified as Tumwesige Trever is on the run. Tumwesige Trever Authorities in Nansana Municipality, Uganda, raided the event in area’s Ochen ward last week.  On Monday (31 May), Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire said that the force had received a tip-off about a group of men, “suspected to be homosexuals”, who were conducting a same-sex wedding. He said: “At the same function, gifts were recovered, these included suitcases, a TV, assorted gifts like sugar, salt, pineapples and many other gifts normally given at traditional functions.” Watch Video Police arresting 40 LGBTQ members  Owoyesigyire said that guests were not ab...

A man has caused a serious stir on social media after it was revealed that he approached a police station with rats whom he alleged ate up his money.  There was drama at Kotido Central Police Station on Thursday when a local businessman stormed the station to file a complaint against Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) for allowing rats to destroy his money. Peter Lojok Longolangiro, resident of Kotidany village in Kotido Sub County paraded five rats at the station he accused of destroying Shillings 396, 000 he had kept in a box. According to Dispatch Uganda He also tendered in damaged notes, which he says were eaten by the same rats as exhibits. Longolangiro claims that the wild rats, which are part of the protected species by UWA, intruded into his house and entered the box where he had stored his cash. ng from the complainant, police referred Longolangiro to the Resident State Attorney for expert advice on the case. Alphonse Ojangole, the Kotido District Police Commander told URN he...

An elderly 75-year-old woman in Masaka and her family have expressed fear after one of her grandchildren was outed as a gay man spreading Homosexual agenda. While appealing for help at Masaka police station, the grandmother (Name withheld) says she fears for her life after the mob (parents) openly vowed to finish her life, burn her house and slash her garden. According to the old woman, the police have not responded to her issue positively.  she revealed to our reporter that the source of her misery is one of her grandsons, Hamza Abdallah Ssewankambo who is accused of committing an abomination. Ssewankambo the accused "Ssewankambo is a former teacher at Destiny primary school Masaka, who flee a school after being pinned by several pupils, for alleged gay acts. As a grandmother, I am not aware of his acts and I don't know why parents should hunt me down"- said the old woman. Though the old woman expressed concern to why his grand son (Ssewankambo) shunned away from women b...

  Police in Kyabando Kampala are investigating on a domestic violence case where a husband delibaretly burnt his wife with  hot cooking Oil. It is alleged that the victim identified as Mary Nanfuka resident of Kyebando was got red-handed smashing a fellow woman in their Marital home in Zone 2 Kyebando.  The filed complaint at the police station was made by the concerned neighbors who accused the man of excessively mistreating his wife.  Speaking to her husband identified as Lubwama Ronald, he revealed to us that he found his wife busy with another woman in their bed practicing homosexuality. Mary on the left with the said to be girlfriend   According to Mr Lubwama, he has been for so long suspecting his wife for involving her self in homosexual activities. He alleged that his wife seems not to have done this for the first time.  The wife is currently reciving treatment at one of the medical facilities in Kyebando.

Members of the Lesbian community Uganda Uganda’s lesbian end of year forced to shut down at the weekend after police stormed the venue and ladies fled, fearing arrest, its organizers said. On Saturday afternoon, three policemen, including one armed with an AK-47 rifle, burst into the venue in the capital Kampala where the lesbian party was ongoing. Photo:Nanfuka in Blue before police raided the venue   “We were very shocked,” said Nanfuka Mary, the party organiser and a re-known member of the LGBTQ community  “In Uganda there’s this narrative that there are no lesbian people, that it’s a Western import. This is why we need this kind of party to attract more of our friends who are still in hide outs,” - Nanfuka . Homosexuality is illegal in the socially conservative East African country and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people is common. Nicholas Opiyo, head of Chapter Four Uganda, an independent human rights group, said he informed the end od y...

Mirembe and her Muzung in a bar in Kampala  Date 26/1/2013 Story By: Andrew kakembo @freemannewsug.com @gmail.com News reaching our desk indicates that one Mirembe Bridget has been spotted in various Kampala night spots with a white  (muzungu) woman suspected to be her lover.  They have been all cozy and in love. We heard that she is so much in love that she took her white  (muzungu) to visit her mother in Kulambiro.  The villagers initially were only amazed to see a known family being visited by white people in a local village like kulambiro. The amazement didn’t last for a little while until Mirembe’s housemaid went to shops to buy some sodas where she bluntly said that the muzungu was not only a friend but a lover to Mirembe.  The villagers were in shock and appalled by this abomination of a relationship. They are now the talk of the village and people don’t associate or talk with them. The housemaid was fired for telling the true relationship of the muz...