Five people were yesterday remanded by the Amuru grade one magistrate over burglary and theft of two police guns.
The magistrate’s court, sitting in Gulu remanded Otto Komakech, Ongom Rashid, Bukenya Charles Denis, Omoya Wilfred and Okwonga Jackson aka ‘‘Steel’’
The five were returned from the police Special Investigation Unit in Kireka Kampala on Friday where they had been transferred.
Amuru Grade 1 magistrate, Edward Okot remanded the five to Gulu Central Prison. They are suspected to have stolen two guns in May from the house of a police officer in Attiak police post. The guns were recovered hidden in a swamp along the Attiak- Adjumani road.
Aswa region police spokesman Jimmy Patrick Okema told Acholi Times on Wednesday that the suspects confessed to breaking into the house of the police officer and stealing the guns.
The five, described by the police as ‘‘hardcore’’ criminals reportedly confessed to police at the Special Investigation Unit in Kireka that they stole the guns and intended to exchange it with cows at Agoro in Lamwo district.
The Special Investigation Unit in Kireka, Kampala, is where hardcore criminals are detained for interrogation and is reputed to have underhand method of extracting information from suspects.
Agoro, in Lamwo district, at the Uganda- South Sudan border is reported to be a porous border for the movement of small arms between the two countries.
