[KC]

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/new...m-loan-4232292

[Mr.NoCredit]

Nothing like a few practice rounds in the wall before you turn your weapon towards a person..

[depraved1]

Shooter has about 1.7% knowledge about how to use that weapon.

[samcws]

UGX 2,130,000 is less than USD 600.
Kill a person for that amount?
Eh...anyway, people get kill for an argument and that's USD 0.

[pokerplay]

hopefully hes learned his lesson about paying back a loan.

[BiscuitBumper]

I know it's a necessity for Commerce and Society, but dealing with another person's money just seems like a bad idea.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by KC ↗

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/new...m-loan-4232292

Police officer shoots money lender dead over Shs2m loan
Friday, May 12, 2023

What you need to know:
Police Constable Ivan Wabwire went on rampage and shot the money lender after being told he owed the service provider Shs2.1 million

Police in Kampala are hunting for one of their officers wanted for murder after he allegedly shot and killed a money lender at Raja Chambers along Parliamentary Avenue, Kampala.

Kampala Metropolitan police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango identified the shooter as No.67029 Police Constable (PC) Ivan Wabwire.

The victim of the 1pm shooting was identified as U.B., an Indian national and the director of TFS Financial Services.

“The client who is also a police officer called PC Ivan Wabwire first came yesterday (Thursday) and met the director of TFS financial services to verify how much he owed the company,” Mr Onyango said.

The police officer has reportedly been servicing two loans since 2020.The first loan was coded (deducted directly from his salary) while the second one was not.

“He could just come and pay whenever he got the money for the second loan. They calculated and told him he owed the company Shs2, 130,000.

Yesterday, he said the bank where they are paying his salary from wanted the calculations so that they can offset all the loan and see how they could progress with him. He had returned today (Thursday) for further verification," Mr Onyango explained.

When he was told the amount, he got incensed and reportedly started arguing, dismissing the figure claiming that it was inflated.

"One of the workers who was inside said the officer first shot at the CCTV cameras inside the office. Everybody who was inside took off. We still don't know what happened thereafter. We have called our CCTV team to come and retrieve the footage and analyse to see what happened," Mr Onyango said.

After the shooting, PC Wabwire who is currently on the run jumped on a boda boda bike and rushed to Central Police Station in Kampala where he abandoned the killer gun, an AK47.

However, police said he will be tracked and arrested.

"Uganda is very small when you have committed a crime. He will be got at any time. It's very unfortunate that an officer of that caliber would resort to shooting instead of resolving the matter amicably,” the police publicist added.

B.'s body was conveyed to Mulago city mortuary as investigations continue.

B.'s shooting comes just days after State Minister for Labour Col (rtd) C.O.E. was shot by his bodyguard, Pte Wilson Sabiiti at his home in Kyanja, a Kampala suburb on May 2, 2023. Pte Sabiiti committed suicide after the shooting.

[Brynjar]

Payday loans. What the hell is a boda boda bike??

[stranglewank]

Originally Posted by samcws ↗

UGX 2,130,000 is less than USD 600.
Kill a person for that amount?
Eh...anyway, people get kill for an argument and that's USD 0.

Buying power of $600 USD is exponentially higher in Uganda than it is in the US. It’s why those sponsors for feeding a kid for a dollar a day exist while we spend well over a thousand a year on groceries.

[kellyhound]

meanwhile the president in a statement on his social media account asking questions to who? The citizens?

Ugandans and, especially the Bazzukulu,

Condolences on the death of one of our Indian People, Mr. U. B, killed by a Police Constable by the names of Wabwire Ivan.

All these mistakes are easily traceable. In this case, for instance, some questions immediately come up:

1. How did an off-duty Police man, access a gun?
2. Did he walk away from his guard post without permission with a gun to commit crime?
3. How are the guns stored in the Police?
4. Is there no security at the site where the victim was?
5. Why did that local security allow an armed person into the building who had no guard business there? Then, there is the question of the mental state of this Policeman.
6. Did he have a history of mental instability? If he had, why hadn’t the Police leadership noticed and acted appropriately?

The answers to these questions may help us to plug the gaps in the security system.
Condolences to the family of Bhandari.

Signed:

Yoweri K. Museveni
PRESIDENT
13/05/2023