By Bayan Nalubwama
The Police Crime Intelligence Division has arrested a man believed to be the prime suspect behind the torture and burning of another man using hot melting plastic that was recently captured in a video.
In the video that made rounds on social media on Sunday last week, the victim, whose legs and hands were tied with barbed wires and burnt using hot melting plastic by unknown men with one of the men inflicting the torture wearing an NRM T-shirt.
Police later identified the victim as Brian Njuba 40, a plumber and resident of Lungujja in Rubaga Division. Police said he was randomly picked because he had put his phone contacts on pinned pieces of papers that he used for service advertisements.
”We have established that the video was of a torture of an individual who was randomly selected and lured to a guest house known as Lovely Guest House in Ggaba from where he was tortured” Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed after the video circulated.
He added that Njuba was stripped, genitals tied with ropes, mouth gagged with stockings, and selected parts of the body burnt using melting plastics from a small jerry can. The group then abandoned the victim and took off with his phone thinking he had died.
The police mouthpiece has revealed that through several techniques, the Police Crime Intelligence Division has arrested and detained one of the suspects, Abdurahman Wejule.
“He is one of the prime suspects behind that viral video. We used our advanced surveillance techniques to track and arrest Wejule from Lugazi. Upon a search at his home, the phone of the victim was found, sim card and the yellow t-shirt written on NRM which was captured in the video,” Enanga said.
The police spokesperson noted that during the operation,
A one Mastullah Namaganda, a receptionist at the guest house where the incident happened was also arrested during the operation as she is the one who booked the suspects and also allowed them to use her phone to call and lure Njuba from Lungujja to Ggaba from where he was tortured from.
“We established that the suspects used her phone to lure Njuba to the guest house. She further directed him (Njuba) to room number six from where he was tortured.” He said
Earlier one, the police spokesperson revealed that the owner of the guest house, Brian Mushabwe, had been arrested for not recording the identities of the suspects in the registration book as regulations for hotels, lodges, and guest houses stipulate.
Police are still tracking the remaining suspects as they believe that there were two others involved in the act.
