Police in Kabale district are busy investigating and hunting for the whereabouts of unknown thieves who sneaked into University premises and stole sixteen computers this week.
According to Kigezi regional police spokesperson Elly Maate ,the university security guards have been apprehended and charged with negligence of duty as investigations continue.
“ it was established that the university registrar’s office and that of the director post graduate school had no padlocks and on finding out one computer had been stolen from each of them plus fourteen (14) stolen from the computer lab,” he said.
He further explained that fourteen of the computers were stolen from the computer lab while each of the other two computers was stolen from the University Registrar’s office and that of the Director Post Graduate School.
“Police visited the scene and inquiries are underway to establish where the security personnel were at the time,” Maate said.
He noted that the stolen computers like any other university properties are engraved with letters KAB asking for the help of the pubic in the identification of the smillar items.
“Whoever sees anyone selling or fraudulently owning such items should report to the local authorities so that the suspects are brought to book,”he said.