Uganda: Crime Watch

31 August 2007

Kampala — THE practice of leaving car keys with the car washer may be approved in town, but it has its pitfalls, the Police warns. Following the recent alleged theft of the Usuk MP's vehicle from a washing bay, which, in a dramatic twist, turned out not to be so, the Police issued an alert: Do not leave your vehicle keys with car washers.

And they could be right in doing this, given that their statistics indicate that a bulk of cases reported to the Police stations in the city, are about vehicles theft.

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