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Police say they have arrested a suspect, recovered a motorcycle and stolen property following a spate of aggravated robberies reported in Kampala city’s Nakawa Division.<\/p>\n
Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire says the incidents occurred on the night of January 6, 2026, in Nsimbiziwome and Kigowa One, Bukoto Two parish, prompting a co-ordinated Police operation involving officers from Ntinda and Kiwatule police stations.<\/p>\n
Owoyesigyire said the first robbery was reported at about 9:00pm in Nsimbiziwome, where a teacher identified as Patrick Kasasa was attacked by a gang riding on motorcycles and robbed of electronic devices valued at about shillings four million.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe victim was assaulted by suspects moving on motorcycles and lost a Samsung Galaxy phone, a Chromebook, a Dell laptop, and a Galaxy tablet,\u201d Owoyesigyire said.<\/p>\n
About 50 minutes later, two more robberies were reported along Valley Road in Kigowa.<\/p>\n
According to Police, Shadia Namaganda, a businesswoman, was robbed of an iPhone 11 Pro Max, an Itel phone, her national identification card, and cash (shillings 3.5 million), while Bosco Musobya, a driver, lost a Samsung Galaxy phone, a wallet containing his driving permit and national ID, and cash shillings 420,000), with the combined losses estimated at over shillings 3.9 million.<\/p>\n
Owoyesigyire said the Police promptly visited and documented all the scenes of crime before launching a pursuit along the Northern Bypass after receiving a tip-off from the public.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne suspect, identified as Joseph Wataba, was intercepted and neutralised after he attempted to attack officers with a panga,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The suspect was arrested and taken to Mulago National Referral Hospital for medical attention as investigations continue.<\/p>\n
During the operation, the Police recovered a motorcycle, registration number UMA 582HF, a panga, and a Galaxy tablet believed to have been stolen during the robberies.<\/p>\n
Owoyesigyire said other suspects managed to flee, but efforts are ongoing to track them down and recover additional stolen property.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"________________ Police say they have arrested a suspect, recovered a motorcycle and stolen property following a spate of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[6955,1179,6956,6957,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-9868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-nakawa","9":"tag-police","10":"tag-police-arrest-suspect","11":"tag-recover-motorcycle-after-nakawa-robbery-spree","12":"tag-uganda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}