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Security Close in on Runaway Ugandan Boxer

Security organs in Uganda have registered a breakthrough in their quest to arrest a Ugandan boxer, Kakeeto Geoffrey, who disappeared a while ago. Kakeeto disappeared in 2017 after the tragic death of his close friend Okot Patrick. A source close to the family of the deceased told us last night that Ugandan security has since ascertained that Kakeeto is no longer in Uganda.
“They said they have fresh information that he (Kakeeto) was crafted onto a boxing team led by Afande Kaddu of Bombo which was going for a boxing tournament in Germany. As soon as he reached Germany, he escaped from the team and disappeared,” the source which preferred anonymity because of the sensitivity of this matter said.
The source said the police assured it that they will soon engage International Police (Interpol) to have Kakeeto arrested and repatriated to face charges in Ugandan courts.
Reports indicate that Okot died of multiple injuries a week after a scuffle broke out on the outskirts of Bombo town where a number of teenagers used to go for gym and training in physical games like boxing, kick-boxing, martial arts among others. It is said that both Kakeeto and Okot were caught red-handed engaging in unnatural sexual behavior. Police had swung into action to arrest Kakeeto but he disappeared and the search for him is still on.
Section 145 of the Penal Code Act stipulates life imprisonment for any person who commits unnatural offences. The unnatural offences the law prohibits are; having carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; (b) having carnal knowledge of an animal; or (c) permitting a male person to have carnal knowledge of him or her against the order of nature.
This section also prohibits any attempt to commit the above offences and it stipulates seven years for any person found to have attempted to commit such crimes. This, in other words, makes it easier for the police to juggle between the two provisions to have someone brought to book either through the commission of proving an attempt to commit.
Under Section 27(2) of the Police Act, a police officer has powers to, without warrant, and at any hour of the day or night, enter into any premises where he or she reasonably suspects that an unlawful activity is taking place or is about to take place and arrest any person(s) there.

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