President Yoweri Museveni has appointed the former head of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), AIGP Grace Akullo to head of Interpol.
This comes a day after Akullo handed over CID office to Maj Tom Magambo.
Akullo replaces Charles Birungi who has been serving in this office after succeeding AIGP Fred Yiga.
Akullo was on November 22, 2011 appointed as the new CID director to replace AIGP Edward Ochom but on January 25, 2022, President Museveni appointed Maj Tom Magambo from the Internal Security Organisation to replace her.
Speaking on Thursday as she handed over office to the new bearer, Akullo listed a number of high-profile cases she has dealt with during her tenure.
She mentioned the July 2010 twin blasts at Lugogo and Ethiopian Village in Kabalagala by Al Shabaab terrorists’ group in which the culprits were arrested, convicted, and sentenced to long-term jail punishments.
Akullo also mentioned the 2015 murder that shocked the nation after businessman Juvenal Nsenga was run over by his wife Jackie Uwera Nsenga in their marital home in Munyenga.
The trial saw the wife sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for murder and her efforts to appeal the sentence were futile.
She said she was also proud of having successfully handled investigations into the sudden death of former Butaleja MP Cerinah Nebanda in which two people were convicted, Eriya Ssebunya also known as Kasiwukira murder, Greater Masaka panga murders between 2017 and 2018, attempted assassination of Gen Edward Katumba Wamala, kidnap and murder of Maria Nagirinya and the murder and robbery at Cheap Hardware in Nansana in 2018.
