Fishermen in Buliisa District have been left in shock\nafter over 30 boat engines were stolen by suspected Congolese militia last on\nMonday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 35 boat engines are yet to be recovered as more\neffort is being put in by Uganda Police<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking to some of the fishermen, they told Uganda Mirror\nthat some of the boat engines belong their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNot only that we lost the product, we angered some of\nour customers and we have to replace their engines,\u201d one of the fishermen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were stolen when the suspected militia raided the\nlanding sites of Butiaba, Walukuba, Somsio and Wanseko. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They crossed to DR Congo with the robbed Engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The militia have since been asking for a ransom of 1.5\nmillion shillings to have the boat engines returned to the owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julius Hakiza,\nthe Albertine region Police Spokesperson says that efforts are being made to\nhave the robbed boat engines returned to Ugandans at a free cost.\n\n\u201cWe\nare carrying out our investigation and we have hope that the boat engines that\nwere stolen will be recovered, \u201c he said. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fishermen in Buliisa District have been left in shock after over 30 boat engines were stolen by suspected Congolese militia last on Monday night. The 35 boat engines are yet to be recovered as more effort is being put in by Uganda Police Speaking to some of the fishermen, they told Uganda Mirror that some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":8743,"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":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"yoast_head":"\n