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Maggie Kigozi Wrestles Thugs, Forces Them to Flee Maggie Kigozi by Simon Masaba NATIONAL NEWS NEW VISION, Thursday, May 7, 2015 5 Maggie Kigozi wrestles thugs, forces them to flee Maggie Kigozi By Simon Masaba Dr. Maggie Kigozi, the former Uganda Investment Authority boss, is the latest victim of a new crime wave targeting prominent personalities. At about 4:00am on Wednesday, unidentified thugs wielding knives scaled the perimeter wall around Kigozi’s home in Kakeka zone in Rubaga division, a city suburb. They removed tiles from the roof and got into her living room. Kigozi’s niece Brenda Bagonza, who was in the room, raised an alarm. Kigozi, a patron of the Girl Daniel Kigozi aka Navio and his brother Fred Kigozi at Guides, jumped out of her bed and Nakasero Hospital where their mother was admitted confronted one of the thugs, who was half naked, in the corridor. tiles from the roof to enter the Maggie Kigozi, is a medical The thug fled along with his house. doctor, business consultant, accomplices after the scuffle Other personalities who have and the chancellor for Nkumba attracted attention of neighbours. fallen victim recently are Mariam University. She served as the As Kigozi wrestled with the thug, Police leave Kigozi’s home. Inset the hole where thugs passed. Photo by R. Ahimbazwe Namayanja, a presidential executive director of the Uganda the second one opened the back private secretary for Land, Investment Authority (UIA) from door through which they fled. They said the thugs had of Information and National Ambassador James Kinobe, 1999-2011. Kigozi suffered deep knife cuts on broke into Kigozi’s house in Guidance and stole a flat screen television talk-show host Peter She holds a Bachelor of her left thumb and ring finger. Police speak early morning. The officer TV. Kibazo and Olive Kigongo, the Medicine and has practised as a Her son Daniel Kigozi, commonly “They are declined to say more about In October 2013, a gunman wife of the NRM vice-chairman, physician in Zambia, Kenya and known as Navio, narrated how his so skilful the incident. shot Eng. Balamu Bisuti five Moses Kigongo. Uganda. Kigozi has served in mother fought off the thugs. and can times in the chest, killing him various capacities including as a “She is fine now. Out of surgery unscrew New crime wave at his home in Manyango Dr Maggie Kigozi member of the Global Banking and strong. She suffered a stab flat sreen The Special Investigation on Nambi Road, off Entebbe Dr Margaret Blick Kigozi, Alliance for Women Advisory wound during the robbery. No television Division (SID) chief, Charles highway. The assailant removed commonly known as Dr. Board. one will be allowed to visit until sets from Kataratambi, said there has tomorrow. Please keep her in your walls within been an increase in cases of prayers. Thank you,” said Navio. seconds,” Kataratambi said. robbery at the homes of high- Maggie Kigozi and her niece were profile personalities. treated at Nakasero Hospital. He said five suspects have Police detectives visited Kigozi and old, but well-maintained. been arrested in the upscale took fingerprints. The thugs did not Its brown gate and wall suburbs of Kololo, Muyenga, take any property from the house. fence with flowers is protected Buziga, Naguru and Naalya. by barbed wire. “They are so skilful and can A quiet residence Two men walked out of unscrew flat screen television Mid morning yesterday, the home the residence, one clad in a sets from walls within was quiet except for the intermittent black and blue track suit and seconds,” Kataratambi said. barking of a dog and birds chirping white sneakers, the other The robbers are agile in the canopy of trees around the in a sweater, black trousers, enough to pass through tiny home. holding a black and white openings and elude closed- The home is located barely 200 polythene bag. circuit television, he said. metres from Rubaga Hospital on New Vision later found out A fortnight ago, thugs broke the access road that connects to the that the two men were plain- into the home of Maj. Gen. Mengo-Wakaliga one. The house is clothes police officers. Jim Muhwezi, the Minister .
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