Police in Mukono have arrested six prostitutes for beating a client, whose name has not been identified yet to death in a local lodge over UGX1,000. According to local authorities at Ggulu Ward, Wantoni, they allege that on that fateful night, the deceased approached eleven sumbie vendors standing near the bar lodge and demanded for a bed minton session.
After long minutes of negotiating, one of them settled for UGX5,000 from the deceased for her services, to which the deceased agreed.
The deceased reportedly gave the woman a five thousand shilling note and demanded for the balance of UGX1,000, which the prostitute declined to return. He later decided to confiscate the girl’s phone over the UGX1,000, not knowing this could clearly end his life. This action prompted her to sound an alarm for help. Her colleagues immediately pounced on the man like wounded jaguars, killing him on spot.
The police are also currently holding the Recess Bar and Lodges Manager identified as Abbass Kigundu in relation to the incident that happened on that fateful evening.
While addressing the media, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, said out of eleven sex vendors first arrested, only six remain in police custody at Wantoni, Mukono Municipality after a screening exercise and five have been released Onyango has however declined to reveal their identities so as not to interfere with the ongoing investigations.
He added that police is yet to retrieve a postmortem report from Mulago before sending the case file to the State Attorney for legal advice and action.
"We have recorded statements from relevant witnesses and screened the 12 suspects that we had initially arrested and remained with only six in custody and we have enough evidence pinning them on this murder case,” Onyango said.
