Paddy Sserunjogi a.k.a Sobi, a hard-core criminal turned police informer has told the Grapevine why police want him dead but ISO want him alive.
Speaking to this reporter, the former Kifeesi leaders confessed that his team has been working for so many people who include policemen, opposition politicians and business men.
Sobi told us that some people in police wanted to use him and dump him like a hot potato but he raised his ante quickly and escaped their traps.
He says that he knows each and every gang in Kampala and the suburbs and soon he is going to produce a list of these gangs and their commanders inside police. Here is our brief discussion with him:
Grapevine: Hello Sobi
Sobi: Clear ‘Kawani ki ‘. Just call me notorious Sobi original, who will never be used and dumped like a toilet paper.
Reporter: You have said you are on police/ opposition wanted list, why?
Sobi: Without us those guys (police/opposition) don’t work. Those strong opposition politicians have always hired us to cause insecurity in Kampala and its suburbs. The more we cause chaos in town, the more vouchers are signed by some big police officers in the guise of keeping law and order and the more government is defrauded of billions by the force.
Reporter: So, you are saying police/opposition are a team and they work together.
Sobi: Yes. Both directly and indirectly. For example, when we cause insecurity through opposition riots, after being hired, these opposition leaders are called and given huge envelopes. Some police bosses also write reports that opposition is very strong and need to be contained and the only way to do that is through a fat police budget to buy things like teargas and anti-riot vehicles and equipment. Let me tell you, if we don’t show up, or stop the criminality, as we did during the festive season, police aren’t working. The big guys in the force won’t get the big vouchers.
Why do you think police budget was slashed by almost 721bn? Security agencies have learnt that the force has been stage managing insecurity in the country and when we gave up, obviously it had to go down because they have nobody else to use, given that we know all the trouble causers in this town. Ask yourself why, when we came out and announced that Ugandan’s will have a safe, crime free Christmas, it happened just like we said. We know the command centers of crime.
Reporter: So, you have been dealing with the forces’ operatives to cause insecurity?
Sobi: Yap. That’s why our crimes have always been clean. There are people who have been doing the cleaning exercise in the force when we mess up. But we are now saying enough is enough we shall hunt all criminals and the force will never defraud the state by using criminals. I’m am Sobi the original, I will hunt them in person. Uganda has to be free.
Reporter: Who are the operatives you have been working with?
Sobi: I will list them soon.
Reporter: Why have you decided to give up?
Sobi: I have realised we can be better people. If Bobi Wine from the ghetto is an MP now, why not us. We want to be productive in our communities. We never choose to be bad people torturing people on the streets, Circumstances forced us because we have to survive.
Grapevine: What do you want the gov’t do for you and other youths you command, since you have turned your back on criminality.
Sobi: We don’t need hard cash from the president. All we need from him is production materials say wood, timber, metals and machines because we can do carpenter and welding as well.
Reporter: You said you now some criminals who work with police, can you list some of them and where they work from.
Sobi: John Kutula, leader of Kasolo group, used to operate in Kawempe but now works at Nabugabo, Orbit Kalerwe Mini Price, Mongolia, who is now reformed based at Kalerwe Lufula but is now working now for ISO to fight crime, Kato Muto a brother to Kato Musege Arua Park, Jesus Mulago Lumum Street, Roger Maaso City Square, was vipers second in command, Kimala, Yassin Kapata , Tong Po and many others.
While appearing before the parliamentary committee for Defence and Internal Affairs, IGP Kayihura pleaded with the committee to allocate more funds to police after the force was given 514.7 billion instead of 1.2 million. Sobi told us that his crossing over to ISO is one of the reasons why the police budget was cut and why police wants him arrested.
