Three power line vandals netted as Police cracks down on gang

“On that fateful night [November 19], the suspect and his group had come to vandalise the tower. The suspect went and started unscrewing some of the plates and nuts in the middle of the tower that were not welded. We found the bolts in his pocket, meaning he was unbolting and pocketing. “The tower started bending. He had no time to escape, and it fell on him. His head was shattered, and his colleagues took off,” Lubogo said.

(L-R) A technician with Paul Mwesigwa, the Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited managing director; and Dr Patricia Litho, the assistant commissioner for communication and information management at the energy ministry, inspecting a section of high-voltage transmission tower that was vandalised in Mukono district on November 21.