The government, through the Ministry of Works and Transport has given current vehicle owners two-years to migrate to the new digital number plates regime, which has been developed under the Intelligent Transport Monitoring System (ITMS).
The victim is Christopher Ayebaale 47, a resident of the same area. He was reportedly hacked multiple times on his head by the assailants who found him sleeping in his room. The thugs made off with his Bajaj motorcycle registration number UGC 946W.
Superintendent of Police Michael Kananura, the Spokesperson for the Traffic Police, identified careless overtaking, over speeding, and violations of route charts by bus drivers as the primary contributors to these crashes.
The deputy Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, said the police were alerted, and officers collected the cartridges, the deceased’s gun, and took the body for a postmortem.
Muhere reportedly went missing on October 28th 2023 from his boda boda stage at Kajooga trading center in Munteme parish, Kizirafumbi sub county in Kikuube district after he received a phone call from a yet-to-be unidentified person to go and transport him to unknown destination.
According to preliminary information gathered by our reporter, Kiyuba bumped into the speeding police patrol destined for Moroto when he emerged from a crossroad.
Bosco Gwaya, a motorcyclist in the area, says that the driver was speeding and it was hard for him to brake, ending up ramming into the motorcycle, killing the two instantly.
Moses Bagiire, the chairperson of motorcyclists in Kaliro district, says that most of his colleagues are reluctant to adhere to the set guidelines at the pump stations, which he suspects to have triggered the accident.
Available intelligence information indicates that the suspects track down their victims for an estimated two months before they strike and rob them of their motorcycles. Their luck ran out when police recovered a motorcycle registration number; UFM 917M belonging to Amuza Ogoola, which was stolen from his home in Wairaka cell in Kakira town council, in Jinja district.
Jonathan Alinaitwe 31, who was based at Ikoba Boda Boda stage in Bubogo parish in Kabwoya sub county was reportedly hired by unknown people from his stage on Thursday. Since then, Alinaitwe had never been seen.
Bashir Mugoya, a motorcyclist who is currently nursing wounds at Jinja Regional Refferal hospital, says that he was ferrying three youths from Nankoma sub-county in Bugiri district to Mukono municipality, where they had been promised casual jobs.
The water bower registration number UAY 911N rammed into a motorcycle registration number UEM 123 on the which, the two were riding killing them instantly on Easter Sunday morning.
The suspects who are locked up at Kiira East-Central police station are Paul Kalimungabo and Ramadhan Kapeere. They were picked up on Wednesday morning after residents who saw Kalimungabo depart with Mukisa tipped off police authorities.
Eyewitnesses say that Mulumba who was riding from the side of Kamuli on his Bajaj motorcycle number UFB 656J attempted to overtake a sugarcane truck in a congested area characterized with double parking and bumped into the UPDF truck registration number H4DF 1248 that was coming from the opposite direction.
The suspects pose as land brokers and when they realize that their victims have ready cash to purchase the non-existent property, they in turn convince them to procure US Dollars at a lower rate, and then sell them the fake currency notes.
Magoola had earlier on fled into hiding when some motorcyclists attempted to lynch him for selling old motorcycle spare parts but failed to mention his suppliers raising suspicion that the parts are from stolen motorcycles. This prompted detectives to launch a manhunt for the suspect leading to his arrest on Wednesday night.
The operation was triggered by the increasing cases of motorcycle theft within Jinja city. It is reported that, in the past one month, eight cases of motorcycle theft were registered along the different highways connecting to Jinja city’s central business area.
