The self-described former leader of the Kampala criminal organization Kifeesi, Paddy Sserunjonji, also known as Sobi, was assassinated.
Sobi lost his life after a disastrous land eviction in Maddu, Gomba.
Superintendent of Police Karim Majid, the acting spokesperson for the Katonga region police, verified the information.
“It is confirmed one Paddy Sserunjogi aka Sobi was killed by a mob,” Majid said.
In the event that took place on one Kalisa’s land in Kibaale LC one, Kigumba parish, Maddu sub-county in Gomba district, it is said that some fifty persons with spears, pangas, and sticks attacked another group that asserted ownership of the same area.
Sobi was killed in the fight.
Further information shows that Kalisa paid only Shs20 million for the aforementioned land in 2007 because it was claimed he had purchased it from the wrong individual, despite having paid Shs100 million for it.
A second set of people who claimed to be Paul Kibi’s children and grandchildren presented land titles staking claim to the aforementioned land, and the case was taken to court.
According to reports, Sobi was killed in a brawl that broke out today, Monday, when the other group hired goons from Kisenyi, in Kampala, to clear the area.
News.co.ug was informed on Monday night by a spokeswoman for the Katonga police that officers remained on the scene to obtain additional information about individuals who had been injured and whether any other bodies might have been found.
In 2017, Sobi gained notoriety after he acknowledged being the head of the criminal group Kifeesi, which was terrorizing Kampala.
His gang harassed Kampala residents, and their victims perished multiple times.
He carried out “operations” that included armed robberies, small-time larceny, and occasionally murder.
Several currency bureaus in the city were plundered by his group.
Sobi and his gang members would frequently be arrested, sent in jail, and then be freed on bail to resume their activities.
Subsequent reports claimed that Sobi was employed by the Internal Security Organization (ISO) during Col. Kaka Bagyenda’s rule.
Engaged in land-grabbing
Additionally, Sobi was allegedly employed by “big shots” in other land-grabbing instances to assist them in seizing “enticing” tracts of land around the nation.
For instance, in 2021, he participated in the forcible fencing off of four acres of a marsh in the Wakiso district’s Nakuwadde hamlet, which is close to Bulenga.
In the Mukono district in 2022, Sobi pretended to be a soldier from the Special Forces Command and took a five-acre plot of land from a ninety-four-year-old man.
On the orders of Fulgensio Ssembajwe, the executor of the late John Lule Ssebakijja, Mwanje’s neighbor, he raided the five acres of land belonging to Musa Mwanje.
Sobi claims that he had purchased 20 acres of land from Mwanje before Ssebakijja’s passing, but sadly, the transfer was not finished when he passed away.
Presenting himself as an SFC operator hired to clear the contested land, he stated he had been promised 10 acres out of the 20 once he cleared and fenced off the challenged area from that of Mwanje.
Sserunjogi recently stated in his most recent high-profile interview on NBS TV that he has political aspirations.