Flying Squad offices recovered an official vehicle belonging to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's spokesperson, ten months after it was reported missing.
Officers from Uganda have been working closely with their Kenyan counterparts in tracking the vehicle. By the time it was recovered, it had been fixed with South Sudanese number plates.
The car, a Toyota Kluger, disappeared from a parking lot at a Kampala home in September last year, only to be found in Kenya with a false South Sudanese registration SSD598M in April.
Kenya’s Flying Squad officers, after receiving a tip-off from colleagues in Uganda trailed clues for the car and first saw it in Murang’a before it was impounded in Gilgil, Nakuru County.
On Tuesday, Don Wanyama, President Museveni’s Senior Press Secretary told the Nation that he had received back his car after months of searching.
“The Kenyan Flying Squad handed it to Uganda police yesterday (Monday) at Busia. It was stolen last September from my home and taken to Kenya,” Wanyama said, clarifying earlier reports that the car belonged to the Ugandan leader as reported by the Nation.
Cases of theft across the border are common. Some years back, President Yoweri Museveni had complained that Pokot and Turkana pastoralists were stealing cows from Uganda.
In April this year, Museveni who was in a two-day trip to Kenya, lauded the trade between the two countries. He specifically hailed Kenya for cross border trade.
“While we are still waiting for the railway (in Uganda), the Kenyan Government has already moved and is now constructing modern jetties and petroleum pipelines," President Museveni said as quoted by Business Daily.