Police seize four slaughtered dogs headed for Mubende roadside market

Police have seized four slaughtered dogs whose carcass was in transit for distribution to a roadside meat market to be roasted for human consumption in Mubende Municipality on Saturday morning.

The carcasses were intercepted when a routine police patrol vehicle stopped a motorcycle whose rider was carrying a polythene bag and a passenger at around midnight.

According to police report Criminal Record Book: 778/2026, the rider declined to stop, prompting the police crew to pursue them to establish what they were carrying.

In the pursuit, the rider and the passenger were arrested for failing to stop at the police checkpoint. Police Constable Paul Nkugwa and other officers then searched the suspects and their property.

It is then that the officers found four carcasses of dogs in the polythene bag.

The suspects were tasked to explain the circumstances under which the dogs died, where they got them from, and where they were taking them.

During interrogation, the suspects told police they were delivering the carcasses to roadside meat markets in Mubende Municipality where they supply the meat to people who sell it as roasted goat’s meat to unsuspecting consumers.

There are several roadside meat markets in Mubende Municipality where many travellers along the Kampala-Mubende-Fort Portal highway make stopovers to buy roasted chicken and goat’s meat.

The suspects told police officers they have been doing it on a daily basis, trapping and catching stray dogs in the villages. The stray dogs are then slaughtered and the carcass sold to roadside meat vendors.

According to police, the suspects have been detained as investigations to search for their accomplices continue.

The suspects are being held on offences of injuring animals contrary to the Penal Code Act.

According to the Penal Code Act, any person “who wilfully and unlawfully kills, maims or wounds any animal capable of being stolen commits an offence. If the animal in question is a horse, mare, gelding, ass, mule, camel, bull, cow, ox, goat, pig, ram, ewe, wether or ostrich, or the young of any such animal, the offender commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years; and in any other case the offender commits a misdemeanour.”

Efforts to get a comment from police spokespersons on the issue were futile.

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