Police have arrested a driver within the Ministry of Well being in reference to the aggravated theft and the rape of a feminine sufferer in Wakiso District final month.
The police additionally impounded a car belonging to the ministry, which the suspect reportedly used whereas committing the crimes.
The incident in query occurred in Kajjansi on Entebbe Street on Could 26.
The suspect and his accomplices are presently detained in an undisclosed police facility.
In an interview with the Monitor yesterday, Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango mentioned the sufferer is a Somali nationwide.
“The driving force of the mentioned motorcar was a former robber [who] obtained a job with the Ministry of Well being. He, nonetheless, continued along with his theft actions whereby when his former group members had been going for theft missions, they might name him to move them,” Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Onyango mentioned yesterday.
The group has been terrorising the general public in Makindye-Ssabagabo, Kajjansi and Makindye Division however had eluded the police.
On the fateful day, the suspects broke into the sufferer’s home and detained her. They gathered and packed a number of digital gadgets and different family gear.
“When it was time to go away, the stolen gadgets had been too heavy to hold. In order that they took the lady to the parking zone and ordered her to open her car, a Toyota Spacio. They raped her inside her car earlier than loading their loot into it,” a supply, who requested for anonymity to talk freely, mentioned.
The suspects pressured the sufferer to drive them to a selected location.
“Happily, as she was about to park, she noticed the ministry car at a distance and was capable of learn the licence quantity and memorise it,” the supply mentioned.
On the location, she was ordered to lie down and face the bottom because the suspects transferred their loot from her automotive to the ministry car, which was parked a brief distance away.
One of many robbers stayed behind to control her.
The ministry car then drove off with the remainder of the robbers, whereas the one who had been watching the sufferer ordered her to enter her automotive and depart.
Mr Onyango mentioned when the lady obtained house, she instantly referred to as the police and officers had been despatched to the crime scene.
“The law enforcement officials [drove past] the Ministry of Well being car [on] the way in which [to the victim’s but did not suspect that it had been used in the crime]. That’s how the thugs escaped from the crime scene,” Mr Onyango mentioned.
Whereas recording her assertion, the sufferer gave the officers the licence variety of the car that she had seen.
Crime Intelligence officers then used the quantity to hint the car and arrested the motive force.
Upon interrogation, the motive force denied breaking into the sufferer’s home however admitted that he knew the culprits and that he solely transported the gadgets that had been loaded into his car.
The police detectives used the motive force to lure his accomplices utilizing a pretend theft job.
“When he referred to as them, they responded positively and agreed to fulfill at one level the place they had been arrested and brought to police,” Mr Onyango mentioned.
“One of many robbers admitted to have participated within the crime and even named the car (of the Ministry of Well being) they used for taking their loot.”
When the Monitor contacted the Ministry of Well being spokesman, Mr Emmanuel Ainebyoona, for a remark, he mentioned they’d been making an attempt to succeed in the motive force of the car in useless.
“We’re going to get in contact with the Uganda Police as they examine the matter. The driving force’s recognized cellphone numbers are presently unreachable. Our transport workplace will examine to ascertain extra particulars,” Mr Ainebyoona mentioned.
