![]() I sped away for about 500 meters at high speed then slowed to about 30 kph to warn cars heading to Entebbe about the thugs. ![]() The whole incident took a total time of maybe 10 seconds but felt like 3 minutes. When I saw those hands it clicked that this was not a legitimate roadblock and I put the car in drive and sped off.Īt the same time as I was putting the car in drive, one of the thugs put both hands on the top part of the open window and pulled causing the top part of the glass to break/bend outwards as I sped off. ![]() Luckily for me my car’s ignition is not on the right-hand side of the steering column. I put the car in park (but the engine was still on) and I decided to lower my window about 6 inches and stick out my hands out to show them that my hands were off the steering and I was not trying to run/flee like the car ahead.Īs soon as my hands went out through the 6 inch gap I saw two different hands (of two different men) come in via the open window gap trying to get the car keys and switch off the car. Then the passenger side window started cracking from repeated blows and glass shards were flying into the car. Still I thought This was because the car ahead had fled. The banging intensified and I could hear them trying to open the doors both front and rear. I could hear metal hitting glass on the passenger door window so knew one of the army guys was using the metal part of his gun on the window. They quickly started banging on windows hard shouting STOP STOP. One army guy in front and one army guy on the passenger side and six or more guys with torches in plain clothes (the one army guy in the right lane stayed where he was). ![]() The other guys with torches also started running towards us all of them shouting “STOP, STOP.” The army guy in front of the car with the AK47 ran towards us, that is also when I noticed a third army guy with an AK47 on the left running towards the passenger door. My next thought was that the are going to think I will run as well. The first thought I had was that the guy was dodging spikes in the road and had fled (there were no pikes at all but the way his car swerved looked like someone dodging spikes). Then after a few seconds I saw the car ahead dart first right then left then take off towards Kampala. I stopped a bit far away behind him just as a precaution. They approached the lead car and started to talk with the driver it seemed. I could see using his headlights that there was an army guy with an AK47 in the road asking him to stop and I could see with my lights another army guy in the right-hand lane of our two lanes also with an AK47 then lots of other guys with torches. Right after we turned into the left two lanes we moved into the extreme left lane of the two lanes I saw the car ahead slow down. There was a car ahead and a car behind mine. We were a convoy of three cars (we were all strangers to each other). The torches were big LED-torches some with very light blue light and some with soft white light. There were two guys in military fatigues (full combat head to toe) with AK47s one in our lane and one in the next lane (catching cars coming from Kampala) and about 6-8 guys with torches waving the cars down. It looked and felt like a proper roadblock. ![]() There is that section right after the bridge where you have to change from the right two lanes to the left two lanes via the gap in the lane divider.Ībout 10 meters after you change into the left two lanes we ran into the road block. When coming from Entebbe on the expressway, right after you pass the half-completed toll booth there is a bridge over the swamp, the road block was just after the bridge when heading to Kampala from Entebbe. Last night, Saturday 10th February, at approximately 11:20pm we were attacked by thugs on the Entebbe Expresssway at a “road block” setup by guys in army uniform holding AK47s. The roadblock comes hardly a month after gunmen attacked guests outside Serena Hotel, Kigo.īelow is the victim’s (identity withheld on request) horrifying story: Observers have previously urged Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) to find means of lighting up the toll road. ![]()
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