Police have arrested Robert Kakooza Kwesiga alias Sanya Tim aged 25 years, a resident of Kasokoso Kireka, Kira Municipality, Wakiso District for attempted suicide.
The Kampala Metropolitan Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango says Kakooza was picked up after he attempted to burn himself in the People Power offices in Kamwokya city suburbs.
Kakooza alleged that while in a People Power procession to Kayunga on July 19th, 2020, for the funeral of the late Charles Mutyabule, police arrested him and impounded his motorcycle. He was released but his motorcycle remained at Nagalama police station.
According to Kakooza, he tried several times to recover his motorcycle from the police station but police officers kept on demanding for money. Kakooza alleges that he informed Fred Nyanzi, the brother of Robert Kyagulanyi, the People Power leader about his predicament, who promised to help and invited him for a meeting today.
He however says that when he arrived at the People Power offices, Nyanzi only gave him Shillings 40,000 yet he expected Shillings 200,000 which disappointed him prompting to attempt to take his life.
“Kakooza got petrol poured on himself and he was about to set himself ablaze. Police recovered a lighter, jacket soaked with petrol among others” Onyango said.
Onyango explains that Kakooza is currently detained at Kira Road Police Station.
He says they have instituted a team to investigate corruption allegations on the part of the police officer.
This comes days after a 2nd July incident when a one Hussein Walugembe, a boda-boda rider, walked into a traffic office at Masaka Central Police Station and set himself on fire after failing to regain his motorycle, a Bajaj Boxer.
