Local court tasks suspected burglar to list accomplices

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A local court at Nammengo -Kasenke village in Lugazi central division, Buikwe district has compelled a 25-year-old man who was caught with stolen households to list all his accomplices as a measure of fighting theft and burglary in their community.

The LC1 Chairperson Juma Wasswa Kijambiya said John Ssenyonga had turned up at his office on Tuesday to report his colleagues who had beaten him the previous night after a misunderstanding.

However, as Kijambiya began the search for Ssenyonga's tormentors, they turned against him saying he was a serial thief in the area with household items that he kept in his room.

They outlined the properties and their respective owners prompting Kijambiya to abandon his plan of arresting them to searching Ssenyonga's house where they landed on a number of items ranging from sofa chairs, a wooden bed that belonged to area residents.

One of the chairs belonged to Justine Nambi and another one to Charles Kiguli who had already reported his missing chair at Kijambiya's local court.

Kiguli said they had poisoned rats in the house but one died from the chair and because of the bad odor, they were forced to put it on their shed but were surprised when they woke up and it was missing yet they have of a perimeter wall with a gate.
Kiguli said Ssenyonga might have been in the company of others who helped him carry the chair since there was no break-in.

It was from Kiguli's submission that Ssenyonga was compelled to list all his accomplices which he did and handed over the names to Kijambiya to aid them in tracing for them.

Also recovered were Yekosofati Ekoyo's wooden bed and Willy Ssewankambo's mattress.

Ssenyonga was also pinned for stealing three sacks of charcoal belonging to a one, Katabira.

Ssenyonga said he bought the households from his friends without knowing that they were stolen properties from area residents.

He was later taken to Lugazi police station with his exhibits as the search for his accomplices went on.