Kidnappers of John Rwamutwe alias Hedex a brother in-law to former minister Richard Nduhura demanded shs 500000 from his wife to set him free.
Rwamutwe who owned Hedex hardware was kidnapped on Tuesday night at a hotel in Bushenyi town where he had gone to have a drink with his nephew (name withheld).
According to a family member who spoke to this TrumpetNews on condition of anonymity, Rwamutwe was part of a delegation that attended the late city lawyer Maudah Atuzarirwe’s burial in Kantunda, Bushenyi. Maudah perished in a car crash on Masaka road last Sunday morning.
Upon return, the Rwamutwe went to have a drink with the nephew at a certain hotel a few meters from their home, as they retired home, unidentified man jumped into the deceased’s car , Toyota surf UAQ 567R in the passenger’s seat.
“Nephew saw them argue. After waiting for over 30 minutes, he decided to walk home leaving his uncle behind,” a relative said.
Adding that since the deceased’s phones had no battery, the nephew decided to leave his with uncle. The wife later came home from Kampala where she had gone shopping.
“She reached home, slept and woke up at 4am, only to find her husband not yet home.
She checked her phone and found14 missed calls from nephew’s number, which had been taken by the husband,” a relative said.
“On calling back kidnappers asked her to send UGX500,000 or they would kill him. They even put him on phone, and she spoke to him. He asked her to pay the money which she did. They promised to drop him at Bushenyi police station, but never came through with the promise.”
When the wife waited and there was no sign of the kidnappers, she decided to tell the police who followed the matter up immediately. On Wednesday, it was revealed that his car had passed Nyamushekyera prison at a very low speed, and it was evident that someone was being tortured inside the same car.
Police then started tracking the phone number she had sent money to, and it was in isingiro, while the nephew’s number was roaming along Bushenyi to Mbarara.
The family decided to join the search, until this morning when his body was discovered locked in a metallic case, in his car in Kyarutanga, Ibanda a neighbouring district.
Also, an amount of 5 million shillings was found in the car.