{"id":26232,"date":"2016-06-21T01:50:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T01:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-driver-of-besigye-black-van-arrested-over\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T01:50:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T01:50:01","slug":"uganda-driver-of-besigye-black-van-arrested-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-driver-of-besigye-black-van-arrested-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda:Driver of \u2018Besigye black van\u2019 arrested over car robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Police constable Isaac Ssegawa of Police\u2019s Special Operations Unit attached to Kampala Central Police Station (CPS) has been arrested after suspected car robbers implicated him for aiding their operations.}<\/p>\n<p>The officer, who reportedly used to drive police\u2019s black van christened \u201cthe Besigye van\u201d, was arrested last night in Mbarara.<\/p>\n<p>The van has been used to whisk Dr Besigye to police cells on the various occasions he has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Ssegawa\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are believed to have stolen the vehicle from the parking yard of Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital and drove it to Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>Rwizi region police spokesperson Vincent Ssekate confirmed the arrest<br \/>\nand said that the three will be charged with aggravated robbery.<\/p>\n<p>He said they were netted in the ongoing police operation to crack down the raising crime of car robbery in the region.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12914 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/latest002_pix-3.jpg\" alt=\"Rwizi region police spokesperson Ssekate Vincent parades Police constable Isaac Ssegawa, among other suspects at Mbarara Central Police Station on Monday.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Police constable Isaac Ssegawa of Police\u2019s 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\u2019s black van christened \u201cthe Besigye van\u201d, was arrested last night in Mbarara. The van has been used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2481],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-monitor"],"bylines":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26232"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26232"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}