GATATU SAFARIS LTD BOSS REMANDED FOR CONNING TOURISTS

By our reporter

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In Kabale

The Chief Executive Director of Gatatu Safaris Limited Richard Tusasibwe has been charged and remanded for allegedly obtaining money by false presence from tourists.

Tusasibwe who runs the tour company based in Kigezi sub region was arrested on August 12^th 2019 by armed tourist police officers led by Tourism Police Commander-in-charge of Kigezi Region, Emmanuel Tinka while hiding in one of the Islands in Lake Bunyonyi.

Tusasibwe is alleged to have in late July 2019 signed a contract worth 21,500 US dollars equivalent to about shillings 79,422,075 million with a tourist identified as Dr. Lentschig Markus Gunter, a German national to facilitate a tour with his four family members in Uganda.

The contract also required Tusasibwe to pick the tourists from Entebbe International Airport and drive them to Kisoro town as well as booking them accommodation, trekking permits, Park fees, Gorilla and chimpanzee tracking permit, game and boat drive fees, rhino sanctuaries and taxes among others.

Mr. Marcus paid a deposit of USD20, 000 (shillings 73,881,000 million) to Tusasibwe to help him on bookings and cleared the balance on 25th July 2019 when he arrived in Uganda.

However, when the tourists reached Kisoro town, Tusasibwe reportedly
abandoned them at Chameleon Hill Hotel, switched off his phones and disappeared.

The tourists were shocked to find that Tusasibwe did not book for them accommodation, despite having received full payment.

Tusasibwe on Thursday afternoon 15^th Aug 2019 appeared before Kabale Chief Magistrates Court presided over by his worship Julius Kyaka Borore and was charged with obtaining money by false presence the charges he denied.
He was then remanded to Ndorwa government Prison until August 21^st 2019.

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