Three people are in custody at Moroto police station on suspicion of engaging in child trafficking. The trio was intercepted with 13 South Sudanese children aged between 6 and 7 years.
According to Michael Longole, the Karamoja Region Police Spokesperson, the suspects were intercepted around 6 pm on Sunday while transporting the children to an unknown location in a Kenyan registered vehicle number KCJ 884M.
Longole further reveals that the suspects passed through Kenya and entered Uganda via the porous Turkana border. While the suspects were being interrogated, the children were crying due to hunger, which prompted the DPC, Abel Kyooto Barugahare to offer them police biscuits to ease the hunger.
according to one of the suspects who hails from Ngora Opot, they were transporting the minors to Joy junior school in Ngora district.
The other suspect is a Kenyan national, who claims that he was hired from Lodwar to bring children to Moroto while the other is a half-caste with a South Sudanese and Turkana parent.
Michael Longole, says the suspects were arrested after concerned drivers in Moroto Taxi Park became suspicious when they approached them to hire a vehicle to drop the children in Ngora in Teso.
Over the last few weeks, police have rescued dozens of children in Karamoja from the hands of traffickers and the operations to end the vice are still ongoing.
