Initial reports indicated that unknown thugs disarmed the guard and later held the Depot Manager at gunpoint. Within a few minutes, the two were bundled into a waiting vehicle to an unknown destination. The thugs reportedly robbed 15 million Shillings from the depot.
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Julius Hakiza, the Albertine region police spokesperson.
Security agencies in the Albertine region have maintained a search for Joseph Mugume, a manager and Rashid Edema, a Security Guard who were kidnapped from beer depot in Kagadi on Thursday.
Initial reports indicated that unknown thugs disarmed the guard and later held the Depot Manager at gunpoint. Within a few minutes, the two were bundled into a waiting vehicle to an unknown destination. The thugs reportedly robbed 15 million Shillings from the depot.
Police said that detectives found blood stains and a bullet cartridge at the place where the depot manager is believed to have been captured by the thugs. Security launched a search for the kidnapped persons but, has failed to locate them over the last three days.
Albertine region police spokesperson Julius Hakiza told Uganda Radio Network on Saturday afternoon that efforts to recover the kidnapped persons have proved futile so far.
He says the family has not received any headway on what could have happened, yet mobile phones for the two kidnap victims remain unavailable.
Hakiza, however, calls on the public to cooperate with security by providing vital information that can lead to the recovery of the kidnapped persons and arrest of the alleged kidnappers.
