Tanzanian businessman arrested in Uganda for vandalizing cars

KAMPALA
A 42-year-old businessman believed to be of Tanzanian origin was on Monday arrested and detained at Bunga police post for vandalizing people’s cars at a night hangout near his home in Munyonyo, a Kampala suburb.
Mr Charles Byaruhanga, who is known to be a businessman and a designer of billboards for a certain brand in Kampala, got irate when he found two vehicles parked near the road to his home.
Byaruhanga had been drinking at Fusion band, a night hangout in Munyonyo. When he left the venue at around 2am on Sunday morning he couldn’t deal with the fact that some vehicles were parked near his gate.

According to a security guard at the night hangout, the angry businessman entered his home and returned with a stone, which he used to smash the windscreen of a Mark X before retreating back to his home.
The guard who was in charge of securing the premises fled when he saw Byaruhanga returning with another stone.
“I thought he had come to beat me. But instead he hit another vehicle, a Subaru Forester,” said the guard who declined to reveal his names for fear of retribution by the suspect.
According to the management of the night hangout, Byaruhanga is a regular patron “but he is a complicated man and likes privacy.”

“The cars he vandalised were just parked on the roadside and it isn’t his home,” said one of the workers at the hangout.
Mr Isaac Mugerwa, the DPC Kabalaga promised to meet the Byaruhanga so that he can be “helped”.
“Why are you doing this, Is there a problem?” asked the police officer. May be we should meet one of these days and we see how to help you,” Mugerwa told businessman on phone.
The stalemate was however resolved when Byaruhanga accepted to repair the vandalized vehicles.