Rwenzori East Region Police Spokesman Nelson Tumushime
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NEWS- The Police Kasese District are holding two suspects after the Uganda Wildlife Authority found them with carcass of hippopotamus which are a protected animal species.

Rwenzori East Regional Police Spokesman Nelson Tumushime has confirmed that two suspected criminals were arrested from their home in Kahendero cell in Muhokya Sub-county in Kasese District with suspected hippopotamus meat.

The physical remains of two hippopotamus were discovered in the possession of two suspects who are now being held by Police.

Tumushime told journalists that the suspected individuals include 24 year old Mumbere Patrick and Mumbere Robert aged 21 years old.

The arrest came after the public became suspicious of the two individuals in the area and community alerted security personnel who later swung into action and had the two individuals arrested.

Tumushime explained that upon a search of the suspects’ house, two heads suspected to be of a hippopotamus were recovered, and some other wild meet in a sack was also recovered.

The two were handed over to Police at Kasese Central Police Station and detectives are working round the clock to have the two suspects arraigned in courts of law to answer charges that have been preferred against them.

Tumushime called upon the residents in Kasese District that entering the Queen Elizabeth National Park is illegal and also possessing wild life of a protected species is against the laws of the land, especially the Uganda Wild Life Act, so for that matter, all residents should enter the park on permission from the Authorities of Uganda Wild Life Authority.