A Gang Bragged on Video About Breaking Jaws and Extorting Dentists. Police Were Watching.

The video that got them caught was the same video they posted themselves. On it, a group of young men lift weights and shadowbox at a gym in Namungona, a suburb of Kampala, Uganda — then turn to the camera and start boasting. They claim to have broken people's jaws and teeth in attacks around the city. They say they send the bloodied results straight to local dentists, then demand a cut of whatever the dentist charges to fix the damage. Any dentist who refuses to pay up, they say, becomes a target too.

It circulated fast. By September 8, 2026, Kampala Metropolitan Police had traced it back to Gojo Gym in Namungona, Lubya Parish, and moved in on an intelligence-led raid. Eight men were arrested — four of them recognizable from the video itself, the other four found at the gym when officers arrived.

Police identified the suspects as Matiti Mohammed, who goes by the alias "Beast-Commander"; Nurudin Kasule, alias "2 I/C"; Umar Mubiru; Lukooya Adams; Kiyimba Martin; Alinda Yosam Junior; Walumu James; and Elvis Simanya. Investigators say the gym had been operating as cover — officially a boxing training space, unofficially a meeting point for planning attacks.

What makes the case more than just a viral clip is what detectives found once they started pulling the thread. Beyond the jaw-breaking claims and the alleged dentist shakedown, the suspects are now linked to robberies, housebreaking, theft, and phone snatching around Kampala. Some were found with suspected narcotics at the time of arrest, and police are also investigating their alleged use of deadly weapons.

Detectives have said the operation isn't finished. They're still trying to identify others who appear in the video but weren't at the gym during the raid, and separately trying to identify people who may have actually been attacked by the group, since the video itself was the only account of any "jaw-breaking" that police had to go on at the time of the arrests.

Gyms and boxing clubs being used as fronts for organized street crime isn't a new complaint in Kampala, but it's rarely this well-documented — in this case, largely because the suspects documented it themselves, on camera, for an audience. The eight men are now in custody pending court proceedings, while police continue working to identify anyone else connected to the group.