Police arrest prime suspect who tied man with barbed wire, burnt him with hot plastic jerrycan in viral torture video

The Directorate of Crime Intelligence together will the Lugazi police have arrested a one Wejule Amon Rahman, one of the prime suspects behind the vicious viral video of torture manned on Njuba Brian, a 40-year-old plumber.

Njuba was tortured at Lovely Guest House, located at Katoogo LCI, Gaba Parish in Makindye Division.

While addressing journalists at Police Headquarters Naguru on Monday, Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga revealed that Police used their advanced technology to track down Wejule in Lugazi with some of the exhibit that was seen in the video.

“Upon further search after his arrest, we recovered the phone of the victim, remember when they tortured him and left him for dead and they went with his phone because he didn’t have money with him. So we recovered the victim’s phone together with the sim card, we also got the yellow T-shirt written on NRM which was captured on that video,” he said.

According to Enanga, Police also arrested Namaganda Mastulah the receptionist at Lovely Guest House who booked the assailants at the guest house. He noted that Police found out that the suspects used her phone to lure Njuba to the Guest House.

“We are continuing to track the remaining suspects because we believe they were more than two or three, so we are doing everything within our means to ensure that justice is secured in this incident.”

According to The facts gathered by the police detectives, on 26.03.2022, at around 10 am, a one Njuba, a 40-year-old plumber of Lungujja Rubaga Division, was invited for plumbing work, by a group of suspects who hired a room at Lovely Guest House.  Upon arrival, he was called to Room 6, where the suspects immediately grabbed and stripped him naked.  He was viciously tortured, his testicles tied with ropes, his mouth gagged using stockings, and parts of his body burnt using a hot plastic jerrycan.  They robbed his mobile phone and left him for dead.

The horrific act was carefully captured on video, where the faces of the assailants were concealed.  The recorder of the video only managed to display a yellow T-shirt with “NRM” on the back, to probably reveal that the assailants subscribe to the NRM Party but the suspect’s details, were not captured at the Guest House.

As a result, both the owner of the Guest House, called Mushabe Brian and Namagembe Mercy, the duty attendant, was arrested for further investigation, for flouting the security protocols, on guest registration.

According to Enanga, the victim clearly revealed that he had zero connection with the strangers, which implies they completely chose him randomly, following adverts of his contacts on various poles and walls within the division.

“And even if it was not him, they would have called somebody else, whose contacts are openly displayed.  Their act, therefore, could be a pre-medicated smear campaign for political reasons or otherwise.”

 The victim who was rushed to Mulago Hospital for further medical attention is progressing well. The despicable act of torture was recorded on video and posted on various digital platforms.