Fortune Mugisha Ayebare popularly known on social media as Fortune Lindah who went missing on Tuesday night from Shell Kireka is in police custody helping them with the investigation of the kidnap and murder of Maria Nagirinya, and her driver Ronald Kitayimbwa.
Nagirinya who was a Social Worker with the Community Integrated Development Initiative (CIDI) and her driver Kitayimbwa were abducted on August 28, 2019, and later found murdered on Friday, August 30 and their bodies dumped in Nabutiti village Nama sub-county in Mukono district.
A senior security officer said that Ayebare was picked up by a joint security team comprising operatives from the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) in connection with Nagirinya’s murder.
According to the source, the operatives trailed Ayebare from Kampala city up to Kireka from where they picked her because she was among the last three girls seen with Nagirinya hours to her kidnap and subsequent murder.
After apprehending the suspect, the operatives proceeded to Kireka police station where they identified themselves and stated the reason why she was picked up. The suspect was later driven to Katwe police station where she was briefly detained and later transferred to an unknown facility.
Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, says Ayebare’s parents were informed why their daughter was arrested but cautioned not to speak to the media. On Wednesday, the deputy police spokesperson, Polly Namaye released the CCTV footage on showing Nagirinya’s car UBA 570V being chauffeured by the alleged kidnappers.
“The images have been retrieved from an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera and one can clearly see from these pictures that the assailant is wearing a white shirt, a reddish coat and a cap on his head. He is of a dark skin complexion,” Namaye said while releasing the footage.
The development comes in the wake of a Tuesday Press conference where the deputy police spokesperson, Polly Namaye released the CCTV footage showing Nagirinya’s car a Spacio registration number UBA 570V being driven by one of the kidnappers.
In a statement, Police stated, “The images have been retrieved from an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) camera and one can clearly see from these pictures that the assailant is wearing a white shirt, a reddish coat and a cap on his head. He is of a dark skin complexion,” Namaye said while releasing the footage.
The police further stated, “This is, therefore, to appeal to members of the public and to any other person(s) who have useful information leading to the arrest of this suspect in the pictures to contact the nearest police station or call the telephone numbers provided, 0714667793/ 0714668079/0714668105or toll free 0800909990/ 800121222”
The Inspector-General of Police also announced an unspecified reward for a person who will identify the person seen driving Nagirinya’s car.
