{"id":73671,"date":"2024-03-13T16:22:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=73671"},"modified":"2024-03-13T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T13:22:14","slug":"fear-grips-kamuli-boda-riders-after-colleagues-son-is-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/fear-grips-kamuli-boda-riders-after-colleagues-son-is-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear grips Kamuli boda riders after colleague\u2019s son is killed"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Philip Wafula\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boda boda riders in Kamuli municipality, Kamuli District are pondering abandoning their jobs after a son to one of them was killed by yet-to-be identified assailants, who fled with the father\u2019s motorcycle registration number UGA 152Z.<\/p>\n

Shamil Mugere, who was in his early 20s, and a son to James Mugere, who operates on Labour boda boda stage in Kamuli municipality, was on Monday night killed after the father asked him to run some domestic errands.<\/p>\n

It is said that the deceased, who was selling chips near his father\u2019s boda stage, was last seen alive on that fateful day between 7:30pm and 8pm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe father asked him to drop a family member home, but also warned him against carrying any passenger while returning,\u201d Ms Hajira Alinza, who operates a similar business nearby, said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the second time the deceased\u2019s father was losing a motorcycle, having lost the first one from his home in December last year,\u201d\u00a0Ms Alinza said.<\/p>\n

The chairperson of Labour boda boda stage, Mr Swaibu Kitimbo, said their job has been besieged by motorcycle thefts and bandits who prowl the streets even during daytime.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy colleagues have been beaten and robbed of money, phones and motorcycles, most of which were acquired through loans. At least five motorcycles have been stolen since this year began.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem is that whichever suspect we apprehend doesn\u2019t spend more than two days in police custody (because of the 48-hour rule governing issuing bond),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The secretary of Labour boda boda stage, Mr Alex Mawerere, said the perpetrators first scour the area for their victims, before zeroing in on the ones they deem most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn one of the most-recent scenarios, the passenger said he was going to Irundu and back, before robbing our colleague of his motorcycle,\u201d said Mr Mawerere.<\/p>\n

Mr Ibrahim Mawalo, also a boda boda rider, said potential motorcycle thieves first steak out the area for between three and seven days, then lure their victims to deserted places where their accomplices lie in wait.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are soon abandoning the job because when we subject a suspect to mob justice, we are accused of murder,\u201d said Mr Mawalo.<\/p>\n

The Kamuli Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Ms Rose Birungi, said they have had challenges of boda boda riders losing their motorcycles, while others have been killed or injured; however, the district security committee is trying to stop the vice.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast month, the district security committee and municipality officials met boda boda riders and their leadership, but their concerns were mainly on the loss of motorcycles; however, we noted that thieves are among them.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the solutions are for them to leave their work early. I have always seen some of them working up to midnight or as late as 2am when the streets are empty and most passengers at that time are wrongdoers,\u201d Ms Birungi added.<\/p>\n

She, however, said they have laid \u201cstrategies\u201d, which have seen the vice reduce from being on a daily basis to a few isolated cases.<\/p>\n

She added that their intelligence-led operations have led to the arrest of over 20 people who have all been arraigned in court and are currently on remand.<\/p>\n

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By Philip Wafula\u00a0 Boda boda riders in Kamuli municipality, Kamuli District are pondering abandoning their jobs after a son to one of them was killed by yet-to-be identified assailants, who fled with the father\u2019s motorcycle registration number UGA 152Z. Shamil Mugere, who was in his early 20s, and a son to James Mugere, who operates on Labour boda boda stage in Kamuli municipality, was on Monday night killed after the father asked him to run some domestic errands. It is said that the deceased, who was selling chips near his father\u2019s boda stage, was last seen alive on that fateful day between 7:30pm and 8pm. \u201cThe father asked him to drop a family member home, but also warned him against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":73672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[973],"class_list":["post-73671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kamuli-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}