By Editorial,
Police in Jinja are holding a 29-year-old businesswoman over allegation of confiscating a tablet from an enumerator who was doing her lawful duties in the ongoing National Housing and Population Census 2024.
Ms Jennifer Awori, a fish dealer based at Kisima II Island on Lake Victoria in Jinja City East, pounced on 34-year-old Annette Kibekityo, who owed her money.
Ms Awori reportedly grabbed the gadget, government property, as collateral for the debt.
She claimed that Ms Kibekityo, a teacher by profession but deals in fish business, took 200kg of Tilapia and Nile Perch a year ago but she disappeared since then, only to resurface while brandishing a tablet used for entering data during ongoing population and housing census.
In a bid to reclaim her money, Ms Awori, who surprisingly had no idea that Kibekityo was engaged in an important national duty, thought the expensively looking tablet would force the fellow woman to cough her money.
She rushed with the tablet to the area vice chairman only identified as Kategere, who sensed danger and reported the matter to Walukuba Police Station.
The cops at Walukuba also feared tampering with the matter and rushed the file to the Central Police Station in Jinja City. END