CCTV footage helps police to identify KCCA worker's attackers 

May 17, 2019

The said thugs have continued to attack, clobber, injure and sometimes kill road users in these two areas.

SECURITY

KAMPALA - The business community around Nakasero and Nkrumah villages in the city center have decried the increasing cases of criminality masterminded and committed by groups of thugs around Kampala.

The said thugs have continued to attack, clobber, injure and sometimes kill road users in these two areas. 

The latest attack was on a Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) human resource official, Mathias Ssekamatte who was ambushed at 6 am on Thursday around Hard Ware city building, hit on the head with a boulder and robbed. The thugs took off leaving him bleeding. 

According to Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, Ssekamatte was followed by a thug all the way from shell Entebbe Road near Shoprite and clobbered him at Hardware city building. 

"We have reviewed the CCTV footage in that area and positively identified the thug. We are using all our security agencies to find him and his accomplices to bring them to books of law" he said. 

An eye witness Diriisa Namusanga, a taxi operator at Nkrumah Road, said Ssekamatte was attacked by more than 10 thugs, some of whom are known in the area but police have failed to track them down and bring them to book. 

 iriisa amusanga an eye witness at the spots where sekamatte was attacked Diriisa Namusanga, an eye witness at the spots where Ssekamatte was attacked

 
"I saw the guys who hit him, I tried to shout so that they could run away but they boldly went ahead to search him and took off with his belongings. When I went closer, I realized that he was bleeding and I tried calling police officers from Nakasero but none of them picked the phone," he explained. 

Namusanga said that luckily, they saw Ssekamatte's identity card which indicated that he is a KCCA employee

"It's KCCA official who came and took their colleague to Nsambya hospital where he is being treated.

His colleague Fred Kanjako who works with the KCCA information office said the attack on their colleague was a shock to them but KCCA was doing everything possible to save his life.

"We thank the Bodaboda riders who identified his documents and got to us in time before he bled to death. 

The chairman LCI Nkrumah Village, Dennis Muhumuza Majwala told the New Vision that the problem of thugs attacking road users is still rampant because they have a well-connected network of operation right from Katwe, Clock tower up to Nakasero and Nkrumah villages. 

He said that the thugs normally use the corridors between arcades like Namaganda and Kamu Kamu, and then connect to a lane joining Kamu Kamu to Nkrumah road behind Metropole house.

"After stealing, they escape through Conrad house,  Roko offices, and link to an inlet which takes them to the railway station. Then they proceed to Nsambya or Katwe Kinyoro where they rest and plan more attacks," Majwala said. 

He added that the thugs attack in groups of 10, two of them beat-up the victim as others are shielding them. If the victim tries to chase after them, they can beat him to death. 

He said as residents and leaders of the two villages Nakasero and Nkrumah, they have always asked for more security but no action has not been taken yet. 

By press time, Ssekamatte had received first aid at Nsambya hospital and according to the doctors, he was responding to treatment. 

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