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<\/p>\nA suspected iron bar hit man was yesterday rescued by police from a mob that wanted him lynched.<\/p>\n
The suspicion was that he could have been the one behind the attack on a one Alex Wasswa, a resident of Naluvule in Wakiso District on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
Waswa is currently undergoing treatment at Mulago hospital on the severe injuries he sustained.<\/p>\n
Police in Kyengera, using the incident report and intelligence from the community tracked the attackers and the whereabouts of the motorcycle taken from Waswa.<\/p>\n
Police search in the area led to the arrest of 35 year old Yusuf Kawuki and a suspected stolen motorcycle registration number UEP 337Z was recovered.<\/p>\n
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Police has now established from the suspect that stolen motorcycles are always split into spare parts which they sell to unsuspecting dealers in Katwe and Kiseka markets.<\/p>\n
Upon arrest, it was also discovered that Yusuf had been arrested last year vide CRB 194\/2017 over the same charges of aggravated robbery and murder, given court bail at two million Uganda Shillings and returned to the community.<\/p>\n
The suspect will be charged with aggravated robbery vide SD REF.51\/12\/05\/2018 and has since been transferred to Wakiso Police Station pending arraignment before court.<\/p>\n
Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire has called upon all motorcyclists to be vigilant, cautious about the passengers they transport at night especially in hard-to-reach areas and minimize on late night movements because they expose them to such attacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe remind the community not to take the law into their own hands, and to adhere to the rules of the system,” Owoyesigyire said.<\/p>\n
Adding; \u201cCrime should be reported to the police because mob justice is a transgression of the law, since the courts and the police are the appropriate structures to perform these functions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A suspected iron bar hit man was yesterday rescued by police from a mob that wanted him lynched. The suspicion was that he could have been the one behind the attack on a one Alex Wasswa, a resident of Naluvule in Wakiso District on Sunday morning. Waswa is currently undergoing treatment at Mulago hospital on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":4068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[129,457],"class_list":["post-4066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-crime","tag-crime-new"],"yoast_head":"\n