Thieves targeting car registration plates have hit Gulu City and its suburbs again, leaving car owners distressed.
The latest incident happened on Thursday night in Pawel Cell in Laroo-Pece Division.
The thieves pluck off car’s number plates with the intention of extorting money from them after leaving behind their telephone contacts.
The always leave behind a note asking each of the victims to send between 100,000 and 200,000 shillings to an Airtel mobile number.
They also threatened to destroy or dump the car plates in a pit latrine if the victims did not send the money.
A fortnight ago, police picked two men suspected to be behind the recent wave of car registration number plates theft.
Peter Banya, the Gulu Deputy Resident City Commissioner (RCC) for Laroo-Pece Division said efforts were underway to hunt for the suspects behind the rampant theft of car registration plates.
