Uganda police are on the hunt for popular TikToker, Aunt Kaduuka over allegations that she has scammed millions of money from different people.
Born Nakimanya Hellen, Aunt Kaduuka used her social media platforms especially TikTok, asking people to trust her with their money with claims that she will start up small retail shops for them.
Many people, especially the casual workers in the Gulf countries kept sending her money with the hope that they would find fully established shops ready for them to operate upon their return to Uganda.
In different videos that she shared on the media, Aunt Kaduuka presented herself as a motivational speaker and gave her followers a tour of some of the small shops that she claimed to have started, as a way of buying trust from her victims. Little did they know that they were being scammed.
During the weekly press briefing at police headquarters in Naguru, the Deputy Spokesperson for Kampala Metropolitan Police Luke Owoyesigire confirmed that they had received over ten report cases against Aunt Kaduuka for obtaining money under false pretense.
News reaching our desk indicates that she ran out of the country but we are yet to confirm that with the immigration office. We are currently investigating the matter and we will let the public know if that is true.
Different people and those who are currently abroad have used their powers of attorney to file these cases against Aunt Kaduuka.
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We shall investigate more to see if there are other cases at other stations but what I can confirm is that our police in Bweyogerere has over ten cases,” he told journalists.
Aunt Kaduuka’s scam came to the limelight after many of her victims approached social media influencer and blogger, Rhitah Kaggwa and made their reports with receipts of their payments made via mobile money.
Ritah claimed the total amount of money obtained from the victims was at least shs500 million.
