Kayihura has thus sent, Abbas Byakagaba together with his deputy Stephen Tanui to Senior Command and Staff College as Commandant and Deputy respectively.

Byakagaba will be replaced by Frank Mwesigwa the commandant of Police Training School-Kabalye in Masindi district .He will be deputized by Ezekiel Emitu who has also been his deputy.

Deputy Police spokesperson, Polly Namaye, confirmed the new developments but downplayed the cause of transfers of the officer saying ‘it’s a normal police deployment’.

Police officers aboard their patrol can seen lashing sticks at residents standing along Entebbe road.

The has been a public outcry especially on social media with many calling for the resignation of the police which over what they called gross violations of human rights. The police beating happened when former presidential candidate had been granted bail by the High Court two weeks ago. Video footages showed police officers aboard their vehicles lashing at people standing along the roadsides as they waved to Besigye’s convoy.

Two law firms have also filled cases in courts against Kayihura about the same matter.

This move by the Kayihura has also affected are some senior officers accused of who were arrigned in a Police disciplinary court over the same matter and those facing other offences.

This includes Andrew Kaggwa, who has been the commander of Kampala Metropolitan Police South pending conclusion of the disciplinary proceedings against him for brutality and hence tainting the image of the force.

Others are Samuel Bamuzibire, the KMP Field Force Unit commander; Moses Nanoka, the Wandegeya Division police commander; and Patrick Muhumuza, the KMP South operations commander, over the same issue. Aaron Baguma, the commander of Kampala Central Police Station, has also been removed and replaced by Joseph Bakaleke. The Director of Public Prosecutions sanctioned murder charges of Donah Betty Katushabe against Baguma.

In the same message,Moses Kafeero, who has been the commandant of Senior Command and Staff College has been sent to Rwanda for a course.Michael Mugabi, who has been on a course, is now the commandant of Police Training School-Kabalye Masindi District.

The post Brutality police officers transfered first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.

Painting of Saint Andrew Kaggwa

Since the Catholic missionaries had left Uganda at this time, he also instructed, baptized and buried those he took in. Andrew Kaggwa was a Munyoro. At an early age he was captured and carried off as a slave by a party of Buganda, raiding the border country of Bugangaizi. Placed among the royal pages, Kaggwa stayed on as a page up to the time when the explorer H. M. Stanley visited Buganda in 1875.

Stanley had brought with him some European drums which the king, Mutesa I seriously fancied. As a result Kabaka Mutesa 1 appointed Kaggwa as the king’s master drummer and was in charge of some fifteen other drummers. Not long afterwards, he became bandmaster, in charge of all the court musicians, including buglers and cymbals-players.

When the young prince Mwanga took power after the death of the father Kaggwa,was not only reappointed bandmaster but given the title Mugowa, with authority over the entire militia from which the bandsmen were drawn. Though the king had desired to spare Kaggwa’s life from death because of his exceptional skill in music and drumming as the chief drummer, Mukasa, the chancellor continuously pressed the king for the death of Kaggwa.

Mukasa accused Kaggwa of being the principal Christian instructor of the king’s pages and other servants, and vowed not to eat until the king ordered for the death of Kaggwa. Mwanga then grudgingly acceded to the request.

As a result Kaggwa’s executioners sought to delay matters, expecting the king to pardon Kaggwa but then Kaggwa insisted that they kill him and take his arm to the chancellor. A few moments later they chopped his arm before they beheaded him and cut his body into pieces. Christians reverently buried his remains at the spot where he died a place not far from the modern Catholic Major Seminary of Ggaba.  Andrew Kaggwa was beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1920. He was declared a canonized saint by Pope Paul VI in 1964.

See more on Uganda Martyrs Wikipedia

The post Uganda Martyr Andrew Kaggwa first appeared on Uganda Multimedia News & Information.