Uganda police are investigating after a one acre marijuana plantation was uncovered in the garden of a local convent. A regional police chief told the BBC that plants covering one acre had been found and uprooted in the southern Masaka district.
Two nuns and two porters have been questioned.
The two nuns, Sr Nanteza and Sr Rita, who had declined to reveal their identities to the Police, were picked up from Bwanda Convent in Uganda’s Masaka district, where the police found a banana plantation full of the illegal crop, New Vision says.
The paper also said there was a scuffle when Sr Nanteza attacked the Police, accusing them of entering the convent without permission.
Sister Rita told police that the marijuana was not for sale, but for treating farm animals, particularly pigs.
Southern regional commander Emmanuel Muhuirwe told the BBC News website that only the porters had been arrested - not the nuns.
However, Commander Muhuirwe told the BBC that the New Vision report that the nuns had been angry that the police had entered the convent without permission, pointing out that the garden was separate from the convent building.
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