In fact many members of opposition who have attended political gatherings that have not been cleared byUgandapolice have ended up in jail or tortured. The Inspector General of Police Lt. Col. Kale Kayihura has also instructed all opposition members intending to hold political rallies inKampalain future especially at Kalolo airstrip to first get clearance from the president’s office.

 The MP for Masaka Central Mathias Mpuuga has confirmed that he has got a letter from Kayihura halting all political gatherings due to take place at Kololo (Kampala) Airstrip unless the president’s office as cleared such functions. Mpuuga however asks how the president’s office will clear a political rally that is going to expose the government’s wrongs.

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Kayihura says that the organisers of walk to work campaigns (A4C) in the first case did not comply with the 1995 Constitution of the Republic ofUganda. Kayihura says the police received solid intelligence evidence that the walk to work protests was designed to start on a peaceful note but later turn violent and cause bodily harm on the people who would have shunned the campaign.

The inspector general further says that the coordinator of walk to work protests Masaka Municipality MP Mathias Mpuuga notified the Police late “considering the time required to prepare for such an event,” and that Mpuuga had concealed the A4C programme.

Kayihura says that the concealment of the A4C agenda meant that the organisers of walk to work protests had ill intentions. Kayihura says that the Uganda Police under Article 212 has a duty to protect life and property, ensure law and order, prevent and detect crime.

Kayihura also says that the police drew lessons from previous experiences of the walk-to-work demonstrations which ended up in violent riots where roads were blocked, cars stoned and other property damaged as well as loss of lives.

The police boss further says that the organisers of walk to work protests did not indicate the specific location and times of their intended protests, in addition to obtaining clearance from the custodian of the premises they intended to use for their event.

The organisers of walk to work protests had given police the location of their protests as ‘countrywide’, which made it impractical for Police to secure their activities, and they did not confirm whether the custodian of Kololo Airstrip (Office of the President) had cleared them to use the grounds for the A4C rally on 22nd October, 2011.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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In fact many members of opposition who have attended political gatherings that have not been cleared by Uganda police have ended up in jail or tortured.

The Inspector General of Police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura has now instructed all opposition members intending to hold political rallies at Kalolo airstrip to first get clearance from the president’s office.

The MP for Masaka Central Mathias Mpuuga has confirmed that he has got a letter from Kayihura halting all political gatherings taking place at Kololo (Kampala) Airstrip unless the president’s office as cleared such functions.

Mpuuga however asks how the president’s office will clear a political rally that is going to expose the government’s wrongs.

By Walakira Nyanzi

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The Police Spokesperson, Judith Nabakooba says many people are falling victim of conmen promising them jobs, tenders and meeting ministers or even the President.

She says the police is investigating 10 suspected conmen arrested over the weekend for allegedly fleecing money from over 6000 Ugandans from different parts of the country.

Nabakooba says that the ten suspects including their leader Yusuf Kasaja were arrested in Ndeeba after collecting money from a group of 6000 people they had convinced that they were to attend the launch of the Uganda Movement Volunteers Association to be presided over by President Yoweri Museveni at Kololo Airtstrip.

Nabakooba said that arrests were made after Police  found the 6000 people trying to access Kololo Airstrip for the event yet the authorities in charge of the venue had not been contacted by the organizers of the said event.

Cautioning the public against joining the mushrooming organisation without sufficient information, Nabakooba said that police learnt that the some victims had to sell their properties back home to raise fees for registration, a T-shirt and transport fares.
Without mention the expenses meant, the police spokesperson also noted that the police had to feed the hungry 6000 people  before transporting them back to their respective districts.

Nabakooba revealed that police is now seeking for a court order to investigate the accounts of the Uganda Movement Volunteers Association  as to ascertain the amount of money fleeced from the unsuspecting Ugandans

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The Kampala Metropolitan spokesperson Ibin Ssenkumbi says Kasajja formed an association called Uganda Volunteers Movement Association based in Ndeeba to mobilise local people.

He says Kasajja and his group have been getting money from people between 100, 000 and one million shillings for identity cards, registration and T. Shirts.

Ssenkumbi adds that yesterday, over 6000 people were organised from different districts at Kololo airstrip being promised that the association was to be launched and President Museveni was to preside over the launch.

He says the people ended up getting stuck which sent Kasajja and his group into hiding.

Ssenkumbi says the Police have started carrying the people back to their villages and the suspects are to be charged for obtaining money by false pretence and impersonation.

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