Three police officers have been detained on allegations of stealing $4700 at a gunpoint.
The trio currently held at Kiira Police Division has been identified as ASP Sarah Atuhaire, ASP Nicholas Muyonjo and Sgt William Kawoya all attached to Kireka police station.
They have served as OC CIID, OC station and acting station Major respectively.
It is suspected that on April 4, ASP Muyonjo robbed a bag that belonged to Michael Omoit who runs a chain of businesses in Kireka and Bweyogerere.
In a statement he lodged at Kireka police station, Omoit claims that on the fateful day, he was having a meal at Palz Food Hotel in Kireka and the suspect was seated next to him.
At the time, Omoit received a phone call from a broker who asked him to go to Bweyogerere to inspect a house. Before he left he counted the money and deposited at the Hotel counter.
“After finishing my lunch, I counted my dollars, put them in my bag and left it at the counter and later went to Bweyogerere to see the house,” Omoit says in a statement.
On returning to pick his cash, the Hotel worker told him that a police officer had confiscated the bag on grounds that it contained stolen goods.
Reaching at Kireka station, Omoit was dragged into cells on allegations that he funds People Power.
His explanation fell on a deaf eye of a police officer who had already engulfed his loot.
As he insisted, Muyonjo pulled out a gun and threatened to burst his brain shouldn’t he vacate the premises.
Omoit said that later the CIID Ms Sarah appeared with a bag without money.
He later narrated his ordeal to Internal Affairs Minister Gen. Jeje Odong who immediately ordered Kampala Metropolitan Police Commander Moses Kafeero to handle the matter.
CIID publicist Vincent Ssekate confirmed the three officers were netted and are waiting to be charged.
