{"id":10333,"date":"2021-05-14T17:19:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=10333"},"modified":"2021-05-14T15:37:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T15:37:20","slug":"kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners","title":{"rendered":"Kigezi police arrest 22 foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Police in Kigezi Sub-region, in a joint operation with other security organisations, on Tuesday arrested 22 foreigners over illegal entry into Uganda.Those arrested include 14 Rwandan nationals and eight Congolese.<\/p>\n<p>Kisoro Resident District Commissioner Peter Mugisha said: \u201cThe security operation aimed at restraining foreigners that sneak into the country without travel documents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kigezi region police spokesperson Elly Maate said the suspects were intercepted at Nyakijumba police checkpoint in Kyanamira Sub-county on the Kabale-Mbarara Highway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were arrested from a checkpoint which we mounted after getting a tip-off that many of them had entered the country through porous borders. When our security officers intervened, they found that they had no relevant travel documents. They were travelling in three different buses,\u201d Mr Maate said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the suspects are being held at Kabale Central Police Station for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shall interrogate them so that they can tell us exactly where they were going. After that, they will be arraigned before courts of law to be charged accordingly,\u201d Mr Maate added.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the suspects confessed to entering the country illegally and said they were going to Masaka to work as casual labourers.\u201cI entered Uganda from Rwanda because I want to look for survival. We would spend two to three days at home without food, but when you are here, you get what to eat and even some money,\u201d Mr Eugene Ndagijyimana, one of the detained foreigners, said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kabale Resident District Commissioner, Mr Darius Nandinda, said: \u201cThey (foreigners) end up benefiting from the limited national resources such as healthcare. We shall continue to restrain and intercept them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous incidentsIn January, the Kabale chief magistrate\u2019s court sentenced to a caution 47 Rwandan nationals and 10 Congolese nationals after they pleaded guilty to the charges of illegal entry into Uganda before they prayed for forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Kabale Grade One magistrate Isaac Rukundo asked the police in liaison with the immigration officers to have them deported to their respective countries.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, police in Kabale District impounded a bus that was carrying more than 70 suspected illegal entrants from the DR Congo.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, police and army arrested at least 80 suspected Rwandan and Congolese illegal immigrants during an operation on the Ugandan border with the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><b>editorial@ug.nationmedia.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Police in Kigezi Sub-region, in a joint operation with other security organisations, on Tuesday arrested 22 foreigners over illegal entry into Uganda.Those arrested include 14 Rwandan nationals and eight Congolese. Kisoro Resident District Commissioner Peter Mugisha said: \u201cThe security operation aimed at restraining foreigners that sneak into the country without travel documents.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":10332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-10333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kigezi police arrest 22 foreigners - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police in Kigezi Sub-region, in a joint operation with other security organisations, on Tuesday arrested 22 foreigners o ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kigezi police arrest 22 foreigners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Police in Kigezi Sub-region, in a joint operation with other security organisations, on Tuesday arrested 22 foreigners o ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-14T17:19:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/05\/img-609e9912f27bc.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kigezi police arrest 22 foreigners\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-14T17:19:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners\"},\"wordCount\":378,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/05\/img-609e9912f27bc.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kigezi-police-arrest-22-foreigners\",\"name\":\"Kigezi police arrest 22 foreigners - 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