Date: [May 30th, 2025]
The State House Anti-Corruption Unit (SH-ACU), in collaboration with the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), has arraigned Detective Sergeant (D/Sgt) Ngabirano Protasi, a police officer attached to Nsangi Police Station, before the Makindye Chief Magistrate’s Court on charges of destroying evidence and conspiracy to obstruct the course of justice.
The charges arise from an incident in January 2025, where Sgt. Ngabirano, together with others still at large, allegedly conspired to falsely implicate Mr. Richard Sewanonda in a case of aggravated robbery.
Investigations revealed that the officer deliberately removed a key witness statement from an official police file at Katwe Police Station in Makindye Division, Kampala District. He is accused of replacing it with a fabricated statement designed to falsely implicate Sewanonda.
It is further alleged that Sgt. Ngabirano was working in collusion with other parties who sought to illegally dispose of Sewanonda’s contested land while he was in prison.