Police in Kampala are investigating circumstances under which a Centenary Bank Manager was attacked by unknown assailants who poured acid.
According to the Kampala Metropolitan deputy police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, the incident is reported to have happened around 5pm in Makindye near KCCA offices on Tuesday.
“Yesterday, 28/09/2021 at around 1700hrs the police in Katwe received information that someone had been attacked by the use of acid along Makindye road near KCCA offices,” he said.
Owoyesigyire explained that by the time the police arrived at the crime scene, the victim who was later identified as Patrick Katatanzi, a chief manager corporate section Centenary Bank, Mapeera house had been rushed to Nsambya Hospital by a Good Samaritan.
According to an eye witness statement to the police, the victim was alone in the car driving home from his work place.
“While along Makindye road, two men on a motorcycle came from the rear of his vehicle and threw at him a jug containing a liquid suspected to be acid. The liquid splashed on him and burnt him and the clothes he was dressed in,” the eye witness revealed. “He managed to park the car aside and ran out to Makindye medical center, which was close to the scene before he was rushed to Nsambya Hospital.”
The police spokesperson said at a close inspection of the victim’s vehicle, part of the driver’s seat also got burnt and they managed to collect samples of the liquid which have been submitted to the Government Analytical Laboratories in Wandegeya.
No suspect has been arrested but the Owoyesigyire says,” with the help of the CCTV cameras, they are hopeful the assailants will be arrested as soon as possible.
