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Local leaders urge police to introduce dialogue meetings to end brutality

Local leaders urge police to introduce dialogue meetings to end brutality

Local leaders in Kampala are now calling for a massive dialogue between the local people and police that will bring to an end the current impasse which was caused by the beating up of Besigye supporter in Kampala. Salongo Nkoyoyo, the security head in Kisenyi a Kampala suburb says that dragging officers and their bosses […]

UK Minister asks Museveni to curb police violence on civilians

  It seems police violence and brutality on members of opposition parties has caught the international eye. This is because the United Kingdom (UK) minister in charge of Africa Henry Bellingham has asked president Museveni to curb the police violence on civilians. Bellingham is in Uganda’s capital city Kampala on an official visit. He jetted […]

Besigye is again under preventive arrest

Uganda’s leading opposition leader, Dr. Col. Kiiza Besigye is again under preventive arrest at his home in Kasangati on Kampala Gayaza road. His home is surrounded by dozens of policemen and army soldiers in police uniform. Besigye, also a member of Activists for Change (A4c) was suspected by the government to have had plans of […]

Police shoots University students

  A combination of anti riot police and regular police has shot bullets and tear gas into the groups of government aided students at Kyambogo and Nkumba University. The students of Nkumba and Kyambogo universities staged strikes on Tuesday morning over allowances and poor sanitation. In the process the police bullets injured over five students […]