Police is holding two people suspected to have been behind multiple car thefts in Kampala and the neighboring areas.
The suspects have been identified as Nsereko Farouk alias Kasasa Hassan and Wambi Joseph alias Kato Daniel.
According to police, the investigation findings indicate that the suspects would hire vehicles from people and sell them to unsuspecting members of the public who would later get implicated in theft scandals.
“The suspects have been involved in several motor vehicle theft incidents and are being investigated in several cases around KMP,” said the Crime Investigation Department (CID) Spokesperson Charles Twiine in a statement.
One of the suspects.
Twiine appealed to the public, especially to those that have been conned, to lodge their complaints.
“We appeal to the general public especially persons who had bought vehicles from such unscrupulous people and later impounded by police, to come to CID headquarters and lodge a complaint before we dispose them (suspects) to the Courts of Law,” he added.