During a police operation commanded by Stephen Tanui, the Kampala Metropolitan Police commander, the suspected gang of thugs was arrested while along the bypass.
Police have arrested 10 persons who are allegedly part of a criminal gang that has been terrorizing motorists and pedestrians along the Northern Bypass in Kampala. This gang, which often operates at night, has distinguished itself by robbing and sometimes killing motorists and pedestrians who they find along the bypass.
Police said the suspected gang members were found with marijuana, knives, and stolen phones
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Luke Owoyesigyire, the Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police Spokesperson, says the police had to take drastic action by launching this operation after the noises of the general public had reached widespread lamentation about thugs along the Northern bypass who have been ambushing and assaulting people before taking away their property. And, in some cases, their lives.
“We have been receiving complaints about the increase of vandalism of motor vehicles and attacks on persons along the northern by-pass, our task teams have embarked on operations with an aim of identifying the criminals and their promoters. On Thursday, 10 suspects were arrested around areas of the Kyebando flyover. Owoyesigyire said.”
Police said the suspected gang members were found with marijuana, knives, and stolen phones. Owoyesigyire adds that the operation is still underway and will not stop until criminality along the bypass stops and all the criminals are brought to book.
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The public became particularly alarmed after the recent attack and killing of Fred Nashmolo, a truck driver working with Tumwebaze investments limited, who was fatally attacked at Lubigi near the National Water and Sewerage Corporation treatment plant.
One of Nashmolo’s colleagues, Shem Ssenoga, told police that a group of criminals armed to the teeth with hammers and other blunt objects waylaid Nashmolo when he briefly stopped his vehicle to check a flat tyre. He was hit on the forehead before being robbed and subsequently dying of blunt force trauma to the head.
