Man Jose Kayima
Greater Masaka Police has arrested a 22 year old man for allegedly killing two women who he lured into false love.
The suspect identified as Baziriyo Mugerwa has been luring women into false love relationships with an aim of stealing their mobile money pin codes.
“Whenever they would be together, he would study their pin code numbers on their mobile phones and after mastering the pin, he would proceed, kill the women and then steal the mobile money balances,” Police spokesperson Fred Enanga told journalists in Kampala on Monday.
On May 25, Mugerwa developed a love relationship with Afua Namata from Nsangi Village in Kasana Sub-county, Kyotera District,” Mr Enanga said.
He added,
He then invited her to Mayanja Trading Centre in Kalisizo where they stayed together, he mastered her mobile money pin code, then led her to Simba Hills, one of the remote places in Kalisizo, and strangled her to death, stole her phone and fled the scene,” Enanga added
The Police Spokesperson also revealed that at the time of Namata’s death she had Shs180,000 on her mobile money
“At the time of the murder of Namata, there was Shs180,000 on her mobile money, which he withdrew. Upon further interrogation, the suspect admitted to killing Harriet Nambejja aged 40 on April 7 and he murdered Nambejja at the same spot like for Namata and suffocated her to death using a pillow and stole her phone. Money amounting to Shs600,000 was allegedly robbed from the victim’s phone.”
The suspected after killing the two ladies he called the relatives of both asking for money so that he can direct them to the locations of the victims and that is how Police tracked him.
