Uganda: Lira Police Deny Robbing From Slain Armed Robber

Police at North Kyoga Regional Police headquarters have distanced themselves from allegations that police officers who recently went to arrest slain suspected robber, Solomon Odongo, never delivered Shs5m they recovered from him as exhibit.

Odongo and his girlfriend were arrested from their house in Barogole, Ojwina Division more than a fortnight ago after he was suspected to be behind an armed robbery at Jinja Camp in which Ms Sandra Owuni, a mobile money vendor was shot in the right thigh and robbed of Sh5m.

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