The Uganda Police has denied social media allegations claiming that one of their officers in Busia allegedly had sexual intercourse with a COVID-19 positive patient in an isolation centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe would like the public to disregard the allegations on social media that the Busia Police officer who was caught in a sexual act at a quarantine centre was Ugandan,\u201d a statement from the police reads in part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe incident happened at Agricultural Training College, Busia county in Kenya. This college is used as a quarantine centre in Kenya and the Police officer was deployed there,\u201d the police noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On Friday, July 17, social media was awash with reports from different news tabloids reporting that a Ugandan middle-aged police officer had been arrested and quarantined after he was caught having sex with a female COVID-19 patient quarantined at the Agricultural Training Centre (ATC) in Busia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the social media reports, one of the prison warders manning the facility, identified as Police Constable Emmanuel Ng\u2019etich, began engaging a COVID-19 patient in a conversation. Another prison warder, Police Constable Jeff Obondo, who was puzzled by Ng\u2019etich\u2019s actions, went to the guardroom, where he informed his colleagues about what Ng\u2019etich was doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAll the officers [thereafter] went to check what was happening. However, they did not find Ng\u2019etich and the COVID-19 patient. [As a result], they became suspicious and started looking around. Several minutes past 10pm, they heard noise and commotion emanating from the women\u2019s ward,\u201d says a police report filed at the Busia Police Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe police officers rushed there and found all the female patients outside, complaining that Police Constable Ng\u2019etich was raping the lady [she had earlier struck a conversation with].\u201d the statement adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities say when they went into the woman\u2019s room, they found her and Ng\u2019etich naked in bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the women quarantined at the facility, however, told police that the said-COVID-19 patient had consented to sexual intercourse with Police Constable Ng\u2019etich, but only changed her narrative when she learnt that the other female COVID-19 patients in the ward had known what she and the cop were doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police Constable Ng\u2019etich has since been arrested and quarantined at the same facility. His firearm was confiscated by senior officers from the Busia GK Prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The officers samples have also been taken for coronavirus testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Uganda Police has denied social media allegations claiming that one of their officers in Busia allegedly had sexual intercourse with a COVID-19 positive patient in an isolation centre. \u201cWe would like the public to disregard the allegations on social media that the Busia Police officer who was caught in a sexual act at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7989,"featured_media":16256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-16270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16271,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions\/16271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}