Thugs Shoot Depot Manager in Ntinda

Police are hunting for thugs who raided a Riham depot yesterday night in Ntinda and shot at its manager after failing to get money from him. The injured manager has been identified by police detectives as Sserunkuma who is currently receiving treatment at Life Link Hospital.

Sserunkuma has reportedly told police that at around 8pm, armed men gained access to his officer and quickly put him at gun point. He said that the robbers ordered him to surrender all the money that was in his possession.

“I told them that I did not have any money on me. I think they thought I was deceiving them and they decided to shoot at me. They took my phones and some small money that was on me,” Sserunkuma reportedly told detectives.

The incident has since been taken over by Kira Road policing division which is working with Closed Circuit Television –CCTV team to ascertain the movement of the attackers who are believed to have used a motorcycle.

A witness told Ntinda police officers who arrived at the scene about 30 minutes later that the attackers came on a motorcycle disguising as customers. One of them was wearing something that looked like a jacket which is believed to have been used to conceal the gun.

“We had a bullet inside the depot and we saw these people swiftly leaving this place. They even fired some bullets outside perhaps to scare us away,” a witness told police. Police is keeping the witnesses names confidential since it is reported that one of the attackers looked like a person often seen in Ntinda.

Luke Owoyesigyire, the deputy Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson confirmed that the attackers injured two people in the incident. He added that the robbers shot at Sserunkuma because he did not have the money they wanted.

//cue in “the territorial police…

Cue out “…trying to trace,”

It is alleged that the attackers had studied the movement patterns of the depot staff when going to bank the money. Some witnesses claim the robbers looked like private security guards but Owoyesigyire said police would give updates after getting tangible evidence.

Armed robberies have often targeted mobile money agents and supermarkets that are found of keeping large sums of money up to late night hours. A number of people operating mobile money shops and supermarkets have been shot to death or injured in areas of Nsangi, Kyengera, Kajjansi, Kassanda, Mubende, and Kyotera in the last four months.