The Territorial Police in Kampala Metropolitan South and Nateete, are investigating circumstances under which, a male juvenile aged 6 years was kidnapped. Sseginuja Mohammed, a son to Nassazi Sarah, aged 22 was from Mutundwe-Mbawo zone in Rubaga division, Kampala district.
According to information from Police, the victim was lured by a male stranger, who offered to go and buy for him a bicycle, as a birthday gift at the nearest shop but disappeared with him an immediate search was conducted in the neighbourhood but boy was nowhere to be seen which prompted the parents to reported to police.
Police Spokesperson Fred Enanaga in a statement published on the Police statement says the victim was later abandoned with a boda boda rider at Kisenyi, from whom the stranger had borrowed a mobile phone, in order to make a phone call which he disappeared with and abandoned the victim as a bait with the bodaboda rider.
According to Enanga, the police recovered the victim and re-united him with his parents. He says the new trick is becoming common in Rubaga division and cautioned members of the public, to desist from handing over their mobile phones, wherever, a person approaches them with a young child.
“It is a shame that criminals would use a child to participate as a bait. As observed, criminals are coming up with new tricks of defrauding and stealing from people, but the use of innocent children, is inhuman and a violation of children’s rights. Efforts are in place to identify the suspect and ensure that he is brought to book” Enanga said.