32 guns belonging to private security companies that had reportedly gone missing have been recovered by Police and returned to the rightful owners.
The Chairperson of Uganda Private Security Association (TUPSA), Grace Matsiko last month revealed that private security company guns had gone missing in the hands of Police and there was no any explanation from the force.
Senior Superintendent of Police –SSP Apollo Kateeba, the Acting Acting Commissioner Private Security and Firearms Department at police headquarters at Naguru, says the guns have since been recovered.
He argues that it was wrong for private security companies to say police could not accounted for the guns without waiting to establish how the firearms had been misplaced adding that the guns were not missing.
“We have recovered the guns and owners have picked them. When you say guns cannot be accounted for it means they cannot be seen. That was wrong. We had just misplaced them. They had wrongly been given to other security companies,” he said.
The commissioner added that during the fingerprinting exercise of all guns in the country as directed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, some guns were wrongly handed over to other private security companies.
