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A UPDF captain, a major and a lieutenant have been arrested by police on suspicion of masterminding robberies in Kampala and its suburbs, The Observer has learnt.
The detainees include an army captain attached to the phone-tracking unit at the Mbuya-based Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI); a one Major Mushabe, who was found with two illegal guns at his home in Mbarara; and a one Lt Karanzi.
The captain, according to security sources, was arrested two weeks ago by officers from the Police Flying Squad, acting on tip-offs from suspects arrested earlier. The arrests are some of the results of a month-long operation to tame robberies and murders in Kampala.
“During the operations, over 14 UPDF and police officers were arrested and seriously interrogated to reveal how they were stealing from the public,” a security source said.
During interrogation, the suspects said they gave the captain telephone numbers of rich people in Kampala. According to the suspects, the army captain used the official army tracking system to monitor the rich people and later pinned down their actual location at any given time.
“[The captain] would give us the location of the rich people and we would follow them,” a source quoted one of the suspects as having told his interrogators.
The source further told The Observer that after the captain was implicated, the CMI boss, Brig Charles Bakahumura, ordered his arrest. The captain is currently detained at Kampala’s Central police station (CPS), with sources saying he could appear before the General Court Martial.
Contacted for a comment yesterday, the Flying Squad boss, Maj Herbert Muhangi, confirmed the arrest of the captain.
“We received intelligence information from our sources that [the captain] would get numbers of rich people in the city and later track their movements and location,” Muhangi said. “He [the captain] is with us now and he is under serious investigations.”
Muhangi also said that so far the captain has revealed 14 police and army officers who have also been arrested.
“We have arrested them and they are also under investigations,” he said.
POLICE SHOOTS 3
Meanwhile, Flying Squad operatives on Tuesday evening shot dead three thugs believed to have killed policemen and stolen their guns.
The dead have been identified as Fred Mugisha, John Kabuye Mpoza and Moses Kayiga. The three were shot dead in Ndejje, Wakiso district, as they plotted to rob a businessman. According to Muhangi, police received information and trailed the thugs from Kampala to Ndejje.
He said the robbers were shot trying to enter the gate of the businessman.
“When we ordered them to stop, they fired bullets to scare us and in return we shot them dead,” he said.
He said police recovered two guns and a pistol with several rounds of ammunition. Muhangi said one of the recovered guns belonged to police. It was the gun gabbed from the guard of former deputy chief justice Seth Manyindo.
He said police highly suspects that the dead robbers could have killed the police officer who was guarding the home of presidential advisor Chris Rwakasisi.
