At least seventeen
suspects have been arrested by the different security organs currently carrying
out operations in Bukonzo West Constituency to get rid of thugs that have been
killing people and taking away with their property.
Operations started
on Monday after the Chairman LC 5 Kasese Lt. Col. Mawa Muhindo led the arrest
of two businessmen who have been selling stolen meat at the Mpondwe border post
and also reportedly involving in armed robbery.
After their
arrest, the security organs that include the police and the Uganda people’s
defense forces embarked on operations to arrest the rest of the people thought
to be involved in the racket.
The UPDF 2nd
Division Public Relations Officer Lt. Ninsiima Rwemizuma reveals that so far
seventeen people including a woman have been arrested in the areas of
Mpondwe-Lubiriha town council, Karambi and Nyakiyumbu sub-county.
One gun with
over fifty rounds of ammunitions has been recovered in the process.
Lt. Ninsiima
says operations continue until the rest of the racket members who have since
fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo are reprimanded.
Lt. Ninsiima
says that upon interrogation, some of the suspects who have been disguising in
business activities have confessed to shooting dead most of the people who have
been killed in the last two years. He says
that information got so far reveals that they also killed one of their own
called Muthengera after betraying them on a coffee theft deal.
It is said
they reportedly told the security operatives that it is Muthengera who also
murdered self-employed Journalist Amon Thembo Wa’Mupaghasya in early May 2012.
Lt. Ninsiima
who claims that the suspects will be paraded to court soon says there is hope
that more suspects and guns will be got in the near future.
He warned
people of Kasese against hiding information that would have led to the arrest
of suspected criminals before the killing of innocent businessmen became
rampant.
So far, at
least eleven people have been killed by shooting in Bukonzo West Constituency
in the period of two years. END
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