NWSC breaks vandals’ racket stealing new Katosi water plant power transmission wires.
Drake Nyamugabwa
National Water and Sewerage Corperation (NWSC) together with a joint security team have arrested suspected vandals who attempted to steal the new Katosi water treatment plant power transmission copper wires.
According to the NWSC Principal Corporate Marketing Officer, John Fisher Sekabira, who onfirmed the arrests said that NWSC vigorous security team comprising of Uganda Peoples Defence Forces and the Uganda Police Force carried out joint investigation and finally got hold of the thieves.
“They started investigating and we got leads and they set the trap. We found out that the same team was coming back to steal on Friday night and the security team went undercover and nabbed them after the arrest, we spent the whole night recovering what they had stolen” he said
Fisher added that with the help of the security system including CCTV cameras at the treatment plant, they were able to trace the vandals.
“When those things were stolen on Saturday last week, some of the cameras saw the things that were stolen and they helped us trace some of the culprits,” he said
“Working with security agencies, we arrested suspected vandals who attempted to steal the new Katosi water treatment plant power transmission copper wires. They were arrested on Friday night after they attempted to steal a week after they had taken some copper wires,” John Fisher said.
Security sources said that says the thieves are part of an organized racket responsible for stealing and exporting copper wires in the country causing power blackouts, phone outages among other problems.
Handed over to NWSC in July 2021 the Katosi Water Treatment Plant aimed at serving the Greater Kampala through increased production by 160,000 m3 per day and with provision for future expansion to 240,000m³per day to improve the welfare of the people of Eastern Kampala and the surrounding Areas.
The Project which commenced in August 2018 was completed in March 2021 supplies treated water to the Eastern, Northern, and Central parts of the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area, Southern, Western and Central parts of the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area relieving the Ggaba System of the extra demand.
