Uganda Police’s Flying Squad have finalised searching home where journalist Joy Doreen Biira was staying and returned to Kasese Police Station where she has been detained since yesterday.
After 3pm on Monday, Joy Doreen Biira who works in Kenya with KTN was returned aboard a heavily guarded patrol car into police custody after being denied police bond to further their investigations. She wasn’t on duty by the time of her arrest
Ms. Biira was arrested last night alongside her husband and other friends who had come to attend her traditional wedding. Her lawyer Nichoas Opio is in Kasese to oversee her release and by the time of filing this story, the television star was making a final statement before her release according to a source.
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According to police spokesperson Andrew Felix Kaweesi, the journalist was arrested for going beyond security boundaries.
Funeral service vans were parked at Kasese Police Station to collect the bodies of the officers killed in Sunday’s raid while Police are yet to release the 46 bodies of the Rwenzururu royal guards killed.
The 139 royal guards who were arrested during the operation at the palace have been taken to Katoojo Government Prison in Fort Portal.
The death toll has so far risen to 62, according to local authorities.
