Security operatives are hunting for unidentified thugs accused of robbing a mobile money agent, Denis Mwesigwa and killing Rafael Walugembe in Natete Lubaga Division in Kampala last night at around 10:45pm.
Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, confirmed the theft and murder, saying the Commander of Natete Police Station, Muhammad Byansi rushed to the scene only to find a man’s body lying in a pool of blood besides a Spacio car registration number UAY 480 U with shuttered screens.
According to Onyango, while at the scene it was discovered that a group of armed robbers moving in a silver vehicle whose number plate could not be readily established blocked Mwesigwa’s car in which he was traveling with his wife ,started shooting in air while shouting that he should surrender whatever he had in the vehicle.
They went ahead and robbed them of a Samsung phone & a wallet containing Shillings 400,000 plus his wife’s bag containing another phone, Shillings 210,000 and other items.
Onyango adds that Walugembe was killed by a stray bullet fired by the thugs to scare neighbors from interfering with their robbery.
