Authorities in Koboko district have arrested three warders of Lobule Government Prison following the disappearance of three guns and 90 rounds of ammunition.
The trio is identified as Corporal Chief 3 Khan, Corporal Johnson Atiku and Corporal Zebedee Zakayo. They were arrested on Thursday by a team of security personnel led by the District Police Commander Koboko Samuel Abwang.
Reports obtained from detectives in West Nile indicate that one gun was signed by Atiku in January and has never been returned while the two other guns all AK-47 disappeared from the Armory, which was managed by Zakayo.
According to Abwang, the two guns belonged to Prisons while one belonged to the Uganda Police.During t
he investigations, it was established that there was no sign of a break-in suggesting that the three warders are aware of the whereabouts of the guns and should be held responsible.
Jolly Robert Bamutura the Regional Prisons Commander West Nile however contradicted the version of the police and explained that unknown people still at large broke into the armory of the prisons and stole the guns.
The commissioner General Uganda Prisons has since appointed Ismail Adam Onzima and two others to take charge of Lobule prisons as investigations into the matter and search for the guns continues.
