A car belonging to President Yoweri Museveni’s senior spokesman was found in Kenya with South Sudanese registration numbers by the police.

It disappeared in September last year from a parking lot at a Kampala home only to be found in Kenya with a false South Sudanese registration SSD598M

Kenya’s Flying Squad officers, after receiving a tip-off from colleagues in Uganda trailed clues for the car and first saw it Murang’a before it was impounded in Gilgil, Nakuru County and the occupant fled after defying orders to surrender .

Mr Don Wanyama who is the Senior Press Secretary to President Museveni said he had received back his car after months of searching. and “The Kenyan Flying Squad handed it over to Uganda police at Busia.

With the region’s permeable borders, police say the car pilferage is on the rise with vehicles being ferried to neighboring countries and their registration numbers changed.

Kenyan banned South Sudanese registration numbers in November 2017, with the series CE, EE, SSJS, UNS, WS and NBGS after Juba regularised registration.

But with no shared database on vehicle registration, thieves are still able to falsify acceptable series in a bit to dart the police.

According to Police sources in Kenya the car was verified after its chassis number differed with the South Sudanese registration, but marched with details provided by Ugandan authorities.