UGANDA, Dec. 2 -- Thugs, who are still on the run, allegedly rented a building next to a forex bureau on Titanic Building on Johnson Street in Kampala three months ago.

Their mission was to rob unsuspecting Assured Forex Bureau proprietors of millions of shillings.

This duty was executed successfully at the weekend after they drilled a hole in the forex bureau and took off with Shs220m and $6,000 (about Shs22m).

Mr Abbey Muwutu, a businessman at Titanic building, told the Daily Monitor in an interview yesterday that a group of five people rented an office space next to Assured Forex Bureau and made an advance rent payment of three months.

"After occupying the room for some period, the thugs then carried some building tools and pretended...