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Mobile money agents were monitored by their killers for two months-police

The two mobile money agents who were fatally gunned down in Jinja district on Saturday were being monitored by their attackers for two months, say police detectives investigating the double homicide.

Police at the scene of the crime along the Jinja-Iganga highway.

The attackers, four in number, were riding on two motorcycles when they shot dead John Nkabe and his brother Fred Bulago in Wairaka trading centre in Kakira town council along the Jinja-Iganga highway.

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The assailants were reported to have used a nearby feeder road to flee the scene of the crime on two waiting motorcycles.

It was revealed by one of the police detectives investigating the incident that the assailants have been monitoring the two brothers to determine how much money they have, deal in and which transit routes they use to move the money.

We are still at the primary stages of our investigations, but available reports indicate that the suspects would deploy their agents to camouflage as clients yet all their transactions were aimed at ascertaining the cash flows before effecting their attack,” said a police detective working on the case.

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Kiira Regional police spokesperson, James Mubi, says that police detectives recovered four cartridges from the scene of the crime on Sunday.

These cartridges, he said, will be taken to a government forensic laboratory for several tests to determine the kind of gun used and source of the gun used to kill the two brothers.

According to preliminary police findings, the assailants returned to the Jinja-Iganga highway after committing the crime using a numberless white drone, which then headed towards Kampala.

This crime, using motorcycles, will serve as a rebuke to those who ignored those voices which say that motorbikes are used a lot to commit crime.

Before restrictions were lifted on boda boda riders, the president said commercial motorbikes (boda boda) would not be allowed to operate beyond 7:00 pm due to several security concerns.

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My Boda Boda people, I had asked that they stop at 7:00 pm but I have seen them protesting in different ways and on media platforms. However, I have asked the committee to look into their matter,” he said.

Echoing the president’s sentiments, the Minister for ICT and National Guidance Chris Baryomunsi said that the issue of boda bodas is “complicated.”

The curfew for the Boda Bodas is both a COVID-19 related and a security issue. They should therefore maintain the curfew from 7:00 pm to 5:30 am,” Baryomunsi said.

The 7:00pm night curfew was lifted across the economic spectrum, save for boda boda operations, which the president insisted should not work at night.

Although many Ugandans, especially the civil society, said that government has singled out the boda bodas for unfair treatment, the government disagreed.

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Baryomunsi, in response to those who said the government is being unfair, said the government is watching the boda bodas situation vis-à-vis the security situation in Uganda. He noted that a lot of boda bodas are responsible for ferrying criminals to and from crime scenes.

Currently, all boda bodas are being registered at designated stages where shall operate and if they do not comply with is measure, they shall be removed from Kampala. This new exercise was revealed by the state minister for Kampala and Metropolitan Affairs, Kabuye Kyofatogabye.

The meeting resolved that KCCA gazettes boda boda stages within Kampala and the leadership of these stages should be formalized and known. Any stage that shall not be gazette will be illegal,” Kyofatogabye said.

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