Police names Human body in sack carried by security guard

By Ben Musanje

14^th March 2022

Police have unearthed fresh details in the case in which a private security guard was found carrying a dead body in a sack on a motorcycle early this morning.

Gideon Nabasa,31, a security guard attached to Afrisafe Guard Company was found transporting a dead body of a yet to be identified person in a sack on a motorcycle at around 4am while police officers patrolled Kazo Lugoba Zone Kazo Ward, Nabweru Division in Wakiso District on Sunday.

Now, according to Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga, whereas the suspect who is currently detained at Kawempe Police Station refused to tell police more about the dead body, further investigations have found out that the body recovered belongs to one Ivan Kagezi a resident in Hoima district who has been missing for several days.

Enanga explains that Kagezi hired a motorcycle registration number UFG 635P on self-drive from Buseruka on March 7, 2022 from his village in Kijanji to Buseruka which are six kilometers apart and he paid shs10,000 to the owner of the motorcycle and since then, he disappeared until his body was recovered this Monday.

He says investigations indicate that the deceased had been murdered and stuffed into a sack that was found with Nabasa on the said motorcycle.

Enanga noted that after expanding investigations into the incident, police conducted a search at the security guard’s home in Bwaise, Katoogo zone where Nabasa together with a colleague, Ivan Twinamasiko, both security guards at Afrisafe guards led security in a search, blood was found all over the room they were renting and clothes belonging to the deceased which indicates that they killed Kagezi and staffed him in a sack.

The motive of the murder is not yet clear but the two security guards had been deployed to guard a microfinance called Trinity Investments Bank found in Bwaise near Katoogo zone.