A security guard attached to Saracen Company has
this afternoon fled away with about one hundred forty million shillings after
seizing it from a coffee dealer at gunpoint in Barclays Bank in Kasese municipality.
The OC CID Kasese central Police Godwin Tugumye
confirmed the incident saying forty million shillings from the guard who had
taken one hundred eighty million shillings from the coffee trader.
He identified the guard as Lawrence Tumwesigwa that
was providing security at the bank.
He said that two suspects have been arrested to help
in investigations as police mounted a hunt for the guard who had escaped on a
motorcycle boda boda.
He declined to disclose the identities of the two
suspects in police custody and the coffee dealer for investigative reasons.
According to the Tugumye, the thug dropped forty
million shillings, which a another guard at the Post Bank, a few meters from
Barclays bank recovered and handed over to Barclays bank.
Eyewitnesses said that as the guard thug fled,
started splashing some of the looted money to the people who were chasing after
him on foot and on boda boda motorcycles.
The thug reportedly grabbed some of the money at
one of the counters, stormed out of the bank and fled towards Nyakasanga, a
Kasese town suburb.
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