On the 30th Sept. 2023 at 2:00 a.m one of the URA officers in Iganga received a call of a routine smuggler who was bringing in assorted phones via Lake Victoria to enter Uganda. As usual, the URA officers were deployed heavily both on land and water. Other stakeholders from the Fisheries Protection Unit were also …
11,525 pieces of assorted mobile phones impounded in Iganga Read More »
By Joshua Niyonshima The Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Planning, and Economic Development has applauded URA for strongly fighting corruption. “The 84 staff that you have so far sent away is a good lesson. Do not relent. One of the aspects pulling down this country is corruption; therefore, there is a need to commend you for …
The penalties that come with smuggling are perhaps the least of worries for some notorious smugglers like Judith Kamwine of Isingiro. Unfortunately, last Friday at 4:00am, Kamwine and her counterparts could not match the surveillance operations. The driver of her goods in truck number UAR075 was intercepted with 192 bags of Kayera brown sugar. Each …
Recently, the customs team in Kakuto received intel about a smuggler who had cleared a store to make it his new consolidation point in Bigada village, Rakai district. A team was immediately deployed to start monitoring the store located near Kakuto market. In the middle of the night, the smuggler was seen ferrying goods using …
Rolls of textile of notorious smuggler in Mutukula netted Read More »
Following the increased smuggling of mobile phones especially through the Eastern part of the country and an outcry from authorized distributors of phones like; Tecno, Itel and Infinix, a focused operation was organized in Mbale last month to check on the compliance levels as regards their importation and local distribution. The operation was led by the Regional Intelligence Liaison …
319 pieces of un customed phones seized in Mbale Read More »
The Mutukula enforcement team went into an operation last Thursday following intelligence reports of continued smuggled energy drinks from Tanzania. During the operation, a truck of registration number UBE 149E was got with 600 cartons of Azam energy drinks smuggled from Tanzania.