Uganda: City doctor gang raped

(SomaliNet) Thugs in the Ugandan capital Kampala’s suburb of Nansana recently robbed and gang-raped a woman doctor and dragged her out of her house, the Police said.

In a separate incident, two girls aged 16 and 18 were raped in the same suburb after robbers broke into their house.

Reports said the Police on Wednesday paraded 11 men, suspected to be behind the recent wave of crime.

Edward Ochom, the Police chief of Kampala Extra, at Kawempe Police station said among them was Hassan Sebirumbi, whom the Police believe to be the leader of the gang. “What is sickening is that these people would rape their victims after carrying out the robberies and they were known to their communities.”

Ochom noted that the robbers would wear dark-blue raincoats, similar to the ones issued to the Police, to disguise themselves as Police officers.
Ochom described the arrest of Sebirumbi and his accomplices as a “tremendous achievement”.

Sebirumbi, the leader of the gang, had been ‘very cooperative’ and had confessed that he was a habitual robber, Ochom said.

He identified the other suspects as Kayemba Kiwanuka, Kintu Semakula, Hosea Kasambu, Edward Seruwoza, Kenneth Gumisiriza and Geoffrey Makanga, said to be a dealer in stolen items. Among them was a woman, Margaret Nabuma, Nyanzi Umar, Baker Kasambya and a key-cutter, identified only as Drake.

The 11 were among the 78 people arrested during operations conducted by the Police last week. Two guns, two pistols, pangas, an assortment of master keys and a syringe-like pump used for spraying chloroform were recovered.

The operations followed an outcry from the public that parts of Kisaasi, Ntinda, Kulambiro and Naalya were being terrorised by robbers, he explained.
Ochom vowed to continue with the campaign to rid the city of criminals.
He appealed to the public to report any suspicious characters.

In other areas, particularly around the Clock Tower, 100 suspected petty criminals, most of them pick-pockets, were netted and charged, he added.-New Vision