"Roasted Goat" on Mubende Highway? Police Find It Was Actually Dog Meat

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.

Sources say 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 ,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 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.   

We have learnt that 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 consumers mainly those traveling.

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. 

Many now have been buying dog meat thinking its cow meat.