One arrested in failed raid on works ministry facility

Mar 23, 2019

The suspect is known to law enforcement as an unemployed person who is always seen wandering around Centenary Park

A suspected robber is nursing bullet wounds sustained in a robbery foiled by the Police at the works ministry in Kampala. 

The injured is among eight suspected robbers that raided the ministry warehouse along Old Port Bell Road on Friday night, according to authorities at Jinja Road Police Station have revealed.

According to the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, a Counter Terrorism Police officer guarding the warehouses spotted the man identified as Ismael Otim, 25, scaling the perimeter wall of the warehouse and shot at him.

"The first three bullets missed him but the fourth bullet hit him in the left thigh. Other thugs who were on standby outside the wall fled to elude arrest and being shot at," Onyango said.   

He said that the suspect is known to law enforcement as an unemployed person who is always seen wandering around Centenary Park.

Onyango said the Police's 999 rescue team visited at the scene and the suspect was taken to Mulago Hospital to receive treatment.

Revival of 999

In a continued effort to revamp Police's public image especially on thwarting crime, the force revived operations of the 999 rescue service.

Sources said that President Yoweri Museveni ordered Police chief Martin Okoth Ochola to supervise the revival.

All Police patrol pick-ups in the Kampala Metropolitan area now set off for operations every morning from the Police headquarters in Naguru, Kampala.

The Police patrol system had been fazed out under the previous administration and replaced with foot and motorcycle Police patrols, which encountered several challenges with crime rising in various spots across the country.

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