The IGP has applauded Detective Constable Ibanda Stanley, attached to Old Kampala Divisional Police Headquarters, for rejecting a bribe of shs1million, which was offered to him by Asiimwe Olivia, to forego an investigation and potential prosecution, of her brother Akanyijuka Ivan, who had been arrested with two of his accomplices, Kavuma Barnabas and Kato Ivan, for robbery.
The trio are one of the criminal gangs behind the mugging and robbery of pedestrians.
On the 11.03.2022 at around 11:45pm, while armed with knives, they attacked and stabbed, a one Muganga Musa, a Chapati maker and robbed him of his money totalling 60,000/=.
The victim made an alarm which attracted the attention of police officers on patrol, who pursued the suspects and arrested them.
It is during the course of investigations, that Asiimwe Olivia, a sister to Akanyijuka Ivan, raised one million shillings to bribe the investigating officer. Instead of secretly taking the bribe, the investigating officer, decided to turn to his supervisor ASP Omar Karim, an action that led to the arrest of the suspect.
