Two guns were robbed from two private security guards in Gganda, Nansana Municipality, when thugs more than 10 in number attacked a village savings and credit cooperation office in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. In response, security agencies are hunting for thugs who varnished with private security gun in foiled robbery of village Savings and Credit Cooperation, in Gganda, Nansana Municipality, in Wakiso District. The attack that happened in the wee hours of Wednesday morning was reportedly being orchestrated by a group of 10 men.
The attackers first did enough reconnaissance and spotted the areas where the two private guards often rested during the night hours. They raided the area at around 3 am with hammers and stones which they used to hurt the two guards identified as Gerald Orinfa and Comfort Rwasamira.
Orinfa said the group encircled them and started clobbering them as they made alarms calling for help from the neighbours. However, the guard successfully pressed the alarm bell which alerted the locals that there was an attack.
“Police and locals came in time to save our lives. But the thugs had already seized our two guns. They got scared when they heard police arriving and they took off. We were overpowered because they were more than 10,” Orinfa explained to police.
Patrick Onyango, the Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson, said the thugs engaged in a fire exchange with police using the two guns they had robbed from the two private security guards. “These people tried to shoot at our police offices but they ran out of bullets and they abandoned one of the guns. We are hunting for these thugs and the gun they took,” Onyango said.
Rwasamira and Orinfa including Gganda police said the thugs had not yet succeeded in reaching the safe where the money was. The foiled was largely attributed to locals’ swift response to alert police. Onyango said the locals’ swift response was the reason the SACCO’s money saved.
Police have called for increased security on places that keep large sums of money. Installing security alarms has also been encouraged by police to businesses, SACCOs, banking institutions including individual homes and offices.