Suspected city rapist faces 10 charges
Aug 13, 2008
THE Police have opened a central office to receive complaints against a suspected serial rapist whom they arrested recently. The office is in Room 77 at the Central Police Station, Kampala, headed by the deputy regional CID chief, Geoffrey Macheme.
By Eddie Ssejjoba
THE Police have opened a central office to receive complaints against a suspected serial rapist whom they arrested recently. The office is in Room 77 at the Central Police Station, Kampala, headed by the deputy regional CID chief, Geoffrey Macheme.
By yesterday, cases of rape, defilement, aggravated robbery and theft filed from Police divisions across the city had been registered against the suspect, Frank Magandaazi.
He also doubles as a special hire taxi driver. The Police impounded his salon car.
Some files, Nsubuga said, had been sent to the Resident State Attorney for advice, although the available evidence was enough to charge the suspect.
“We have pending cases of defilement and theft against Magandaazi which we have also recalled from the divisions to be worked on here in a special room,†said Kampala Extra Police spokesman Simeo Nsubuga.
Several women have since reported to the Police and narrated how Magandaazi allegedly intoxicated, raped and robbed them of property.
Nsubuga said on Wednesday that the Police had so far opened 10 cases against the man who also goes by two other names, Dan Kaggwa and David Mutesaasira.
As the investigation gained momentum on Tuesday, the Police again searched Magandaazi’s house in Namugongo near Kampala city and seized a briefcase of documents which he could have robbed from victims or used to trick them.
Among the items recovered were a Stanbic Bank ATM card belonging to Janet Nakafeero, a passport book number B0655152 belonging to Nakibuuka Sharifa Kamoga of Nkozi in Mpigi district, a fake identity card showing Magandaazi as the managing director of a fish company in Masaka, photographs of women and business cards of ghost companies.
Nsubuga quoted two victims as saying Magandaazi had a black briefcase from which he pulled a white handkerchief which he used to drug them.
“We are getting phone calls across the country of women who recognised him from the photos published by Sunday Vision,/i>. They said they he had robbed them,†Nsubuga said. Five women turned up on Monday to give statements.
A Police officer said several students of Nakawa Business School had also complained that the man would pretend to be searching for a lover only to rob them of money and other items.
Magandaazi, he added, had in the past been arrested many times for various offences but would disappear after getting bail. Three women last week accused him of sexual harassment, robbery and theft. Magandaazi almost collapsed when he saw the women.
THE Police have opened a central office to receive complaints against a suspected serial rapist whom they arrested recently. The office is in Room 77 at the Central Police Station, Kampala, headed by the deputy regional CID chief, Geoffrey Macheme.
By yesterday, cases of rape, defilement, aggravated robbery and theft filed from Police divisions across the city had been registered against the suspect, Frank Magandaazi.
He also doubles as a special hire taxi driver. The Police impounded his salon car.
Some files, Nsubuga said, had been sent to the Resident State Attorney for advice, although the available evidence was enough to charge the suspect.
“We have pending cases of defilement and theft against Magandaazi which we have also recalled from the divisions to be worked on here in a special room,†said Kampala Extra Police spokesman Simeo Nsubuga.
Several women have since reported to the Police and narrated how Magandaazi allegedly intoxicated, raped and robbed them of property.
Nsubuga said on Wednesday that the Police had so far opened 10 cases against the man who also goes by two other names, Dan Kaggwa and David Mutesaasira.
As the investigation gained momentum on Tuesday, the Police again searched Magandaazi’s house in Namugongo near Kampala city and seized a briefcase of documents which he could have robbed from victims or used to trick them.
Among the items recovered were a Stanbic Bank ATM card belonging to Janet Nakafeero, a passport book number B0655152 belonging to Nakibuuka Sharifa Kamoga of Nkozi in Mpigi district, a fake identity card showing Magandaazi as the managing director of a fish company in Masaka, photographs of women and business cards of ghost companies.
Nsubuga quoted two victims as saying Magandaazi had a black briefcase from which he pulled a white handkerchief which he used to drug them.
“We are getting phone calls across the country of women who recognised him from the photos published by Sunday Vision,/i>. They said they he had robbed them,†Nsubuga said. Five women turned up on Monday to give statements.
A Police officer said several students of Nakawa Business School had also complained that the man would pretend to be searching for a lover only to rob them of money and other items.
Magandaazi, he added, had in the past been arrested many times for various offences but would disappear after getting bail. Three women last week accused him of sexual harassment, robbery and theft. Magandaazi almost collapsed when he saw the women.