Ramathan Katende, a man seen in a viral video beating up his bodaboda employer has been arrested.
Katende, who is currently detained at Nansana police station in Wakiso district, assaulted a one Laguna who had allegedly disappeared with his motorcycle.
This incident happened on June 14, 2023 inside Nansana bodaboda association office where he too serves as the defence secretary for Nansana bodaboda riders’ association.
Laguna was successfully traced by Katende after he disappeared for two weeks with his motorcycle and was not remitting daily fee for the same period.
Patrick Onyango the Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson said Katende’s actions against Laguna tantamount to torture and he has been slapped with the same charges.
Katende allegedly committed the crime at Kibwa zone.
“It’s alleged that the victim was riding a motorcycle belonging to the suspect but disappeared for about two weeks which annoyed the owner of the motor cycle. When the rider was arrested later by the owner, he was taken to the office of the chairman and seriously canned by Katende using electrical wire while recording himself and the video was later shared in the social media,” Onyango said.
Onyango said police after receiving the information, started investigating the case, and recorded statements from witnesses.
Police later established that Katende is a defence in the office of the bodaboda association Nansana and that was zeroed on as a search point.
“As he was torturing the victim his friend was capturing the incident using the suspect’s phone and after, the suspect sent the captured video to their group. One of the group member sent the video recording to various groups,” Onyango said.
Police said after torturing the victim the suspect let the victim to go away from their office and since then the victim has not been seen.
Police have now tasked Katende to reveal where Laguna went or else more charges of causing disappearance of a person will be added on his file.
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