A quiet afternoon at Wandegeya turned into the opening chapter of a high-stakes investigation when police responded to a reported break-in at the College of Veterinary Medicine within Makerere University.
The target was the Postmortem Department building, an unlikely scene that soon revealed a carefully executed theft.
Officers arriving at the scene wasted no time. Among them was a trained sniffer dog named Boela, whose role would prove decisive.
Picking up a scent from the disturbed offices, the canine led investigators on a determined trail stretching nearly a kilometre through the busy surroundings and into a nearby residential pocket. What initially appeared to be a routine campus burglary was quickly escalating into something far more intricate.
The trail ended at a modest house, where two occupants, identified as Ochieng David and Wandwali Colline, became the focus of the investigation.
A search of the premises uncovered a trove of items suspected to have been stolen from the university, including computer equipment, projectors, office furniture, and specialized materials bearing institutional markings.
The scale of the recovery suggested not a random act, but a coordinated effort to strip valuable assets from within the institution.
What deepened the intrigue was the background of one of the suspects. Ochieng David was not an outsider, but someone embedded within the university system, both a worker at the university farm and a student at the very college affected by the break-in.
The overlap of insider access and alleged criminal activity has raised unsettling questions about how the theft was planned and executed.
Now in custody at the Makerere University Police Station, the suspects remain at the center of an ongoing investigation.
