Kawempe Police on Tuesday rescued 15-year-old victim from kidnap and arrested two suspects identified as Buyinja Kalisto, a resident of Kaboowa and Mariam Nansubuga, a resident of Kiibe Kalerwe.
The suspects met the victim around Jinja Kaloli in Kawempe who seemed stranded and disguising to be having good luck charms.
The suspects convinced her to go home, carry all valuable belongings and come with them to Mattuga for luck charms to help her excel in school performance.
Following the recent school sensitization program on kidnaps, the victim decided to alert her family members and close neighbors.
As the suspects tried to secure the quickest means of transport, they were surrounded and beaten to pulp by the angry mob.
Police was alerted by responsible citizens, rescued the suspects from the angry mob and taken to Kawempe Referral hospital for medical attention.
The suspects are currently being held at Kawempe Police Station pending arraignment before courts of law.
The DPC Kawempe Police Station ASP. Ronald Wotwali appreciated the locals for being key figures in the fight against crime, but condemned the acts of taking the law into their hands.
He urged them to restrain from taking justice into their hands saying one might be found in the crime scene and just be a victim of circumstance, having not been involved in any way with the crime.
“Our work as police is to maintain law and order and not to deliver corpses to the mortuary. Mob justice and other related heinous acts are punishable and may lead one to face the wrath of the law,” he said.
Mob justice in many societies has been rampant and often results from public distrust of formal institutions especially courts and security agencies like the police and courts of law.
