Police in Kyankwanzi have arrested the district’s most wanted prolific cattle thief.
The man in cuffs has been using five names to allude police arrest for three years.
Byaruhanga Titus, the Kyankwanzi district police commander identified the suspect as 37- year –old Mohamed Hassan Kako Tabusi Okello.
The district police commander says Okello was arrested on Friday at Katanabirwa village in Butemba sub-county, shortly after he returned to the village.
He is accused of stealing more than 20 heads of cattle from the Kyankwanzi National Leadership Institute in early 2011.
He allegedly led the group of thugs which managed to beat the security at the institute and loaded the cows onto the lorry. The thugs were however intercepted by police a few Kilometers from the institute.
The DPC says that Mohamed has confessed to being the ring leader of the gang of cattle thives from Kiboga, Kampala, Hoima, Kyankwanzi and other neighboring districts. He admits that his group has been stealing cattle since 2009.
On further interrogation, the suspect told police that the stolen cows were always transported and sold to Nakaseke, Kampala, Southern Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kyankwanzi, Butemba and Nsambya are some of the areas that have been hard hit by cattle thieves storming the Kraals at night.
The DPC has asked the courts of law to deny cattle thieves bail, because it undermines police work to fight the vice.
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