By Ben Musanje
2nd Feb 2022
Following intense operations of clamping down on thugs on the Northern Bypass, police have discovered that criminals have shifted to villages near the Northern Bypass.
The Joint task teams of the police and Uganda Peoples Defense Force -UPDF yesterday carried out an intelligence-led operation in areas of Gaza, which is located in Mabito in Wakiso district.
Luke Owoyesigyire, the Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police Spokesperson says that the Mabito village is a known hiding place for suspected criminals terrorizing Nateete, Busega, and Kampala areas.
During yesterday’s operation, some 90 suspects were arrested and are currently detained at Nateete Police Station according to Police.
Owoyesigyire says that the suspects have been engaging in crimes like phone theft during rush hours, burglary, and aggravated robbery yet many of their victims have been stabbed and assaulted before being robbed of their property.
Exhibits including knives and suspected stolen phones among others were recovered in the operation and the suspects will be arraigned in courts of law as soon as investigations are completed according to Owoyesigyire.
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