Umar Kitaaka, the Officer in Charge of Kawempe Division, says the duo was arrested on Monday night following a tip off that they were busy terrorising the area after being released from Luzira Prisons where they were locked up for three years.
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Police is holding two suspected
leaders of Kasolo criminal gang that has been terrorising Kawempe residents for
over three years. The suspects are Ismah Nyanzi aka Natabula and Abdulla Mabina
aka Bashiru, both residents of Kawempe division.
Umar Kitaaka, the
Officer in Charge of Kawempe Division, says the duo was arrested on Monday night
following a tip off that they were busy terrorising the area after being
released from Luzira Prisons where they were locked up for three years.
He says the suspects
are accused of attacking Emmanuel Katumba and Festo Kakonge, both residents of Kawempe
division. Kitaaka says the criminal gang leaders have been operating along
Mbogo road, Kawempe Kutano and Bwaise slum areas, all in Kawempe division.
Kittaka says the suspects have two new files of
robbery at Kawempe police station vide SD90/03/11/2019 and SD95/09/02/2020. Emmanuel
Katumba, who is said to have been attacked by the criminal gang members, told
URN on his sick bed at Horizon Health care in Kawempe that three men waylaid
him near his shop.
They reportedly hit him with a paver and he fell down. They
took off with Shillings 1.3 million and a Samsung phone. Festo Kakonge,
who is also nursing wounds at Zukulu hospital in Kawempe, said he was hit with
weighing scale stone and fell down. The
suspects fled with his money and mobile phone.
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