By KT Reporter
The Closed Circuit Television –CCTV footage has helped police identity and track down two of the three men involved in the 120 million robbery at JBK Plaza in Kampala a fortnight ago. Traders found their shops broken into on October 20, this year and quickly alerted police.
Police’s efforts to cordon off the crime scene and deployment of sniffer dogs did not yield results since the scene had been tampered with. However, one of the shops at JBK Plaza had a CCTV camera which could not easily be seen and it was able to capture details of the culprits.
Traders operating shop number G-12 identified one of the suspects in the CCTV video as Bosco Gahungu, a security guard at the same building. Gahungu was with two other unidentified men. A team of investigators and CCTC experts studied the images of Gahungu’s colleagues and were used to track them.
Police’s crime intelligence and detectives yesterday successfully arrested Gahungu’s partners in the robbery and they have been identified as Samuel Bbosa and Joseph Bani. Upon arrest, Bbosa and Bani have confessed that the deal was brought to them by Gahungu whose whereabouts remain a mystery.
“Gahungu told me these traders usually leave a lot of money inside. He told me the weak points we could use to break into the building and we could not be seen by CCTV cameras. We broke into several shops and collected 33.2 million shillings and 26,600 USD,” Bbosa confessed.
At least 16 shops were broken into on the night of October 20, 2025 and the traders learned about the incident at around 07:30am when they had come to attend to their businesses. Patrick Onyango, the Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson, confirmed the arrest of Bbosa and Bani.
Onyango, however, said detectives and crime intelligence personnel as still tracking Gahungu who was the planner of the robbery. “These suspects are currently detained at CPS Kampala on charges of shop breaking and theft,” Onyango said. “The detectives have informed us that the suspects have confessed to the crime and admitted to participating in the robbery.”
Bbosa and Bani are going to be taken back to scene to demonstrate how they planned and executed the robbery. However, police have learned that the robbery involved in total eight culprits because five others aided the orchestration of the crime as ride away participants or as monitors to alert their colleagues in case of any security presence.
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