Two arrested over Mukono deadly robbery
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman, Mr Patrick Onyango. PHOTO/FILE
KAMPALA. Two men suspected to be part of the group that carried out a robbery in which four people were killed at Nabuti in Mukono District have been arrested by Police Flying Squad.
The two suspects, whose identities are still undisclosed because the case is still in its initial stages, are currently detained at Mukono Police Station as detectives hunt for one other man, whom they suspect to have withdrawn money from the phones that were robbed at the shop.
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman, Mr Patrick Onyango, said Flying Squad operatives recovered nine bullets after searching the homes of the detained suspects.
On Saturday evening, two thugs armed with AK47s stormed a mobile money shop shooting the owner and three other people who were nearby. They made off with cash estimated to be Shs10m and several mobile phones.
The dead were identified as Juliet Kizza Nagawa, the owner of the mobile money outlet, Charles Ssegabi, Godfrey Bamwise and Munna Isabirye. Robert Mugalu was also critically injured and he is admitted to Mulago National Referral Hospital.
By Sunday morning, the thugs had withdrawn all the money that was on the mobile phones they robbed. Mr Onyango said it was only one person whom the deceased Nagawa shared the password with and he was one of their workers, who is currently on the run. “The suspects have helped us with important details, but they have not revealed where they are hiding the guns they used in the robbery,” he said.
Incidents of armed violence in the Mobile Money business have reached worrying levels. In the last three months, police Flying Squad operatives have shot dead seven suspected mobile money thugs in the city centre alone. Two weeks ago, armed robbers shot dead a mobile money agent at Kawanda, Wakiso District.
