KAMPALA, July 6 (Xinhua) -- A court in the western Ugandan district of Kabale has charged and remanded 46 Rwandan nationals over illegal entry into the east African country, a police spokesperson said Friday.
Elly Maate, the Kigezi regional police spokesperson, told Xinhua by telephone that the 46 suspects appeared before the Kabale Chief Magistrate Court Thursday on charges of illegal entry and stay in Uganda.
The 46 are part of the 82 who were intercepted by the police aboard two cross-border buses along the Kabale-Mbarara Highway in the western district of Kabale on Monday evening.
At least 36 women and children were taken by immigration officials to process their deportation back to Rwanda.
The suspects crossed into Uganda illegally through the porous entry points of Rubaya, Bigaya, Kamwezi, and Bufundi, claiming to be heading to Bunyoro and Kijura tea plantation farms in the western district of Kabarole for casual labor, according to police.
Ugandan authorities continue to tighten the border security in a bid to fight criminality and insecurity.
