Police with the help of canine dogs also known as sniffer dogs have traced and arrested one of the seven suspects who murdered a security guard in Matugga and also robbed more than 100 million shillings from Kyadondo secondary school.
In the police file details under CRB, 25/09/02/2023, Closed Circuit Television -CCTV cameras captured seven men dressed in black jackets gaining access into Kyadondo SS which is located at Kiryagonja cell, Matugga parish, Gombe division, Nansana Municipality in Wakiso district.
The robbers murdered Solomon Mijumbi 35, who was one of the three local guards at the school, later they fled from the scene with one hundred eleven million shillings, 1000 US dollars, an HP laptop, and a DVR.
After the incident, Kyadondo SS the school headteacher Hajji Ismail Waligo, alerted the police. This school belongs to Prof Muhammad Ntale, who is also a lecturer at Uganda’s oldest University Makerere.
Hajji Waligo and Prof Ntale indicated that the school had three guards including the deceased Mijumbi, John Asingye, who was badly hit by the attackers, and Frank Tumwesigye who survived unhurt.
To date, Asingye is still receiving treatment at Frost hospital for the injuries that were inflicted on him by the attackers. Since the incident involved murder and robbery of such a huge amount of money, many high-ranking officers visited the crime scene, led by Kampala North Regional police commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police- RPC Gerald Twishime.
Patrick Onyango, the Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson, said Matugga and Kawempe police teams deployed canine dogs which led to the arrest of, Ali Isabirye, a Bodaboda rider at the Kiryagonja stage near the school premises.
“Police recovered one hundred eighty thousand shillings from Isabirye’s home. The money included five thousand denominations only with serial numbers following each other,” Onyango said.
Police findings so far indicate that thugs raided the Kyadondo SS premises at around 1:30 am and they were seen by a male student identified as Kalungi while he was for morning preps in one of the classrooms next to the bursar’s office.
“The student heard thugs breaking into the bursar’s office, one of them went to the classroom and picked him to the bursar’s office and was forced to lie down without turning until when the student realized that they might have left and sneaked out,” police said.
Kalungi went to the main gate to inform the guards but did not find them. So, he jumped over to the teacher’s quarters and informed them. From this time, the deputy head teacher got information and called one of the guards Frank Tumwesigye to find out and confirmed office breaking but was not seeing Mijumbi.
Tumwesigye later realized that his colleague Asingye had been hit and unconscious with too much blood. The school devised means of taking him for medical attention. “As students were going in for morning classes at 8 am, they discovered the body of one Mijumbi and immediately informed the administration who also informed the police,” Onyango said.
Police said CCTVs have all the seven thugs and hope that Isabirye will help them reach all the other suspects. It is not yet clear who alerted the thugs that the schools had just withdrawn the money from the bank.