The Government Spokesperson, Ofwono Opondo, has expressed fear for his life after machete-wielding thugs attacked his home on Thursday night.
Opondo said he is fearing for his life and his family members and linked the attack to politics.
“Opposition politicians love to attack us and I suspect this is the Plan B they announced,” Opondo said in an interview.
Family members of Opondo were shocked on Thursday night when thugs entered their house and started checking the whole house for some property.
Jane Nalukwago, the wife to Opondo, said the thugs used the main gate which did not have guards and was only locked with a padlock.
“We were in the sitting room watching TV, we only saw the men telling us if we wanted to remain alive, we stay silent.” Nalukwago narrated.
One of the thugs who looked to be the youngest and most violent asked them to kneel down and handover all their phones while the other thugs checked the entire house.
In an interview, Opondo said, one of his daughters Kampala was not yet home.
“I received a distress call from one of my daughters but it wasn’t clear. She hang up and when I called, she was distressed, and again I couldn’t get her well. She then sent an SMS, asking me to send the Police at home as they had been attacked,” Opondo said.
He said he called Mukono Police to rush to his home at Nakabago in Mukono Municipality and after he called his brother who lives about 500 meters away from his home.
Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, said about sh30,000 and a small phone were taken by the thugs.
However, Nalukwago, in an interview said the thugs talked of tearing the mattresses to find what they wanted. They locked them in one room and went to the master bedroom, where they broke into the wardrobe and stole sh6m and two phones.
Owoyesigyire told journalists that, they managed to recover the phone near Opondo’s house as the hunt for the thugs continues.
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