Police constable Isaac Ssegawa of Police’s Special Operations Unit attached to Kampala Central Police Station (CPS) has been arrested after suspected car robbers implicated him for aiding their operations.
The officer, who reportedly used to drive police’s black van christened “the Besigye van”, was arrested last night in Mbarara.
The van has been used to whisk Dr Besigye to police cells on the various occasions he has been arrested.
Ssegawa’s arrest came after two suspected robbers netted in Mbarara pointed him out for having aided their operations where they would steal cars and sell them to mechanics who dismantle them into scrap which is sold.
His luck ran out when two suspected robbers both residents of Mbarara District were arrested in connection to the disappearance of a vehicle UAE 822P belonging to a UPDF officer Peter Tumwine attached to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital on May 20 this year.
The suspects are believed to have stolen the vehicle from the parking yard of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital and drove it to Kampala.
Rwizi region police spokesperson Vincent Ssekate confirmed the arrest
and said that the three will be charged with aggravated robbery.
He said they were netted in the ongoing police operation to crack down the raising crime of car robbery in the region.
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