Police have confirmed several cases have said they have started the hunt for social media commentator, Hellen Nakimanya commonly known as Aunt Kaduuka for conning Ugandans of millions of shillings.
Kampala Metropolitan deputy police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire said at least 10 cases have been opened up at the Bweyogerere Police station by Nakimanya’s victims and that the hunt for her is on.
“I can confirm that our Police at Bweyogerere has registered more than 10 cases against the alleged Aunt Kaduuka and efforts are on to trace for her,” Owoyesigyire said on Monday.
He however noted that he is yet to ascertain whether there are similar or different cases reported at other police stations in Kampala Metropolitan Area by victims against Nakimanya, popularly known as Aunt Kaduuka.
The trouble
Aunt Kaduuka fell in trouble after several women, especially those working in the Gulf countries accused her of conning them of millions of money.
Nakimanya who presented herself as a motivational speaker and an expert in starting small businesses like salons, shops, chap stalls and other businesses using little capital asked those who don’t have expertise in this field to trust her to help them in this process.
To this, she would first ask for shs100,000 as consultation fee and later, she would ask for between shs2million and shs10 million to help start business for one and that she would hand it over to the owner after starting it.
Using her social media accounts on Tik Tok and Facebook, she would lure, mostly girls and women in the Gulf countries who mostly wanted some form of investment for their hard-earned cash.
These would send mobile money to her and she would ither give them receipts and acknowledge receipt of the said money.
However, her bubble bust after several of the victims reported to another social media commentator and blogger, Ritah Kaggwa that after paying cash, Aunt Kaduuka became non-responsive and on several occasions, when asked about the promise of businesses, she would become rude.
Many presented the receipts on social media as they appealed for help from police to have her arrested.
According to Ritah Kaggwa, the victims had at least been conned of shs500 million in total.
On Monday, police warned Ugandans against trusting people they just find on social media with their hard-earned cash.
“Why would you trust someone you don’t know very well with money?”
