The Police in Mukono have in their tens a boda boda cyclist suspected to have assisted in transporting the gunmen that shot dead a female Chinese national in September 2017.
According to a statement from police, Rashid Mugaya confessed to having ridden his colleague Fred Kaluga alias Mulefu (already remanded in Luzira) to Nile Steel and Plastic Limited Factory premises with the aim of robbing and sharing the loot.
Police trackedand arrested Mugaya from his hideout in Banda where he had been hiding for 10 months and motorcycle suspected to have been used in transporting the assailants impounded.
On September 1st 2017, two suspects Fred Kaluga and Rashid Mugaya accessed the premises of Nile Steel and Plastic Limited Factory using a motorcycle conniving with security guards and a few workers at the time and disguised as clients.
According to the police report, one of the suspects approached the 50 year old Yei Su a company accountant and put her on gunpoint demanding for money. It is believed the suspects were targeting wages meant to be paid to workers before the IDDI Day Celebrations. Following a physical confrontation, they shot her four times and was later pronounced dead on arrival at Namirembe Hospital.
Police would later visit the scene, lifted fingerprints, examined, analyzed the footage captured by the CCTV cameras and the hunt for the suspects began.
The prime suspect identified as Fred Kaluga was then arrested at a washing bay in Banda and upon search was found in possession of a pistol.
He confessed having shot at Yei Su four bullets which collaborated the postmortem report and also confessed to having participated in another robbery last year at Gimitex in Banda using a toy pistol.
Investigators established the pistol number 201862/606 had been stolen from a Saracen Security Supervisor at Royal Van Zaten Limited a flower factory in Namayiba Mukono District however the Security Group had earlier on filed a case of a missing gun.
Other four suspects identified as Ogwal, Kataala Naluuda, Omara and a one Musinguzi were arrested for being accomplices in the murder, taken to court and remanded to Luzira Prison.
The remaining suspect (Rashid Mugaya) is currently detained at Mukono Police Station vide CRB: 1133/2017 also on charges of murder and is yet to be arraigned before courts of law.
