The Wildlife, Standards and Utilities Court in Kampala has remanded three people to Luzira prison on charges of theft and tampering with electrical installations.
They are: Mukalazi Mukasa Twahiri a scrap dealer and resident of Nakabugo LC1 Bukasa in Bulenga Wakiso District, Augustine Ssemombwe a Rwandan National and Resident in Kirumba Village Masaka District and Robert Nangosya an electrician and resident of Buzesoli village Bushente Sub county in Mbale District.
The trio on Thursday evening was charged on two separate files before Court presided over by Grade One Magistrate Sanula Nambozo.
On one file, the Court has heard that Mukalazi and Ssemombwe and others still at large on March 23rd 2022 at Nabbuzi village Kamengo in Mpigi District willfully and unlawfully cut stepping angle bars from a power pylon thereby damaging the installation equipment of Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited-UETCL.
They are also accused for conspiring to commit that felony. Mukalazi and Ssemobwe have pleaded guilty to the charges against them.
But the Prosecutors have been given up to April 12th 2022 to read the facts of the case to the accused persons who have also been remanded until then.
Meanwhile the third suspect has been charged with theft of electric conductors and meters valued at 10 million shillings.
According to the Prosecution, the property was stolen on March 18th 2022 at Kimenyulo village in Namutumba District and it belonged to Terbian Electric Apparatus Company Limited.
Nangosya has however pleaded guilty to tampering with electrical installations but denied stealing them.
He has also been remanded until April 12 2022 for the Prosecutors to read for him brief facts about the case.
The suspects were arrested from different places by Police as they hunted for the people who have caused unprecedented loss of billions to the government through criminal acts of vandalism.
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