Thugs break into Bank of Uganda office
THE Police are holding two security guards after a gang of six thugs broke into a Bank of Uganda building on William Street, Kampala.<br>The incident occured on Tuesday night.
By Chris Kiwawulo and Steven Candia
THE Police are holding two security guards after a gang of six thugs broke into a Bank of Uganda building on William Street, Kampala.
The incident occured on Tuesday night.
The thugs entered the three-storey building after allegedly lacing the guards’ food with chloroform.
As the guards slept, the robbers got keys to the main entrance from one of them, said the Kampala Central Police Station chief, Stephen Tanui.
They broke into several offices, including that of the bank’s director of medical services.
Another guard, who was watching from a nearby building, alerted the Police.
The building also houses the central bank’s clinic, the institute of banking and financial services and the Non-Performing Assets Recovery Trust head offices, which was also burgled into.
The bank spokesman, Juma Walusimbi, said the thieves tried to break into a small safe but failed.
The unidentified guards attached to New Uganda Securiko Company were picked by the police in the night and taken to Mulago hospital for treatment.
The Police, Tanui said, cordoned off the building at 10:00pm, starting a 12-hour search for the thugs which ended at about 10:40am on Wednesday.
None of the thugs was arrested. Tanui said they could have fled using the back windows, which were found open.
“We have not discovered anything missing yet but investigations are still going on,†said Walusimbi.
Pedestrians looked on as policemen with dogs searched the building, adjacent to the Hotel Equatoria parking yard.
Bank of Uganda clinic employees said the building was not used to keep money.
The incident comes two days after two men were arrested allegedly trying to drill into a Crane Bank ATM on Kampala Road.
THE Police are holding two security guards after a gang of six thugs broke into a Bank of Uganda building on William Street, Kampala.
The incident occured on Tuesday night.
The thugs entered the three-storey building after allegedly lacing the guards’ food with chloroform.
As the guards slept, the robbers got keys to the main entrance from one of them, said the Kampala Central Police Station chief, Stephen Tanui.
They broke into several offices, including that of the bank’s director of medical services.
Another guard, who was watching from a nearby building, alerted the Police.
The building also houses the central bank’s clinic, the institute of banking and financial services and the Non-Performing Assets Recovery Trust head offices, which was also burgled into.
The bank spokesman, Juma Walusimbi, said the thieves tried to break into a small safe but failed.
The unidentified guards attached to New Uganda Securiko Company were picked by the police in the night and taken to Mulago hospital for treatment.
The Police, Tanui said, cordoned off the building at 10:00pm, starting a 12-hour search for the thugs which ended at about 10:40am on Wednesday.
None of the thugs was arrested. Tanui said they could have fled using the back windows, which were found open.
“We have not discovered anything missing yet but investigations are still going on,†said Walusimbi.
Pedestrians looked on as policemen with dogs searched the building, adjacent to the Hotel Equatoria parking yard.
Bank of Uganda clinic employees said the building was not used to keep money.
The incident comes two days after two men were arrested allegedly trying to drill into a Crane Bank ATM on Kampala Road.