Salongo Nkoyoyo, the security head in Kisenyi a Kampala suburb says that dragging officers and their bosses to court may not be the solution to ending brutality as many members of the public think.

He says the police force instead needs to reactive community meetings in various parts of the city so as to rebuild the lost trust and end the current impasse of the public castigated the police for excessive use of force in dispersing especially opposition crowds.Nkoyoyo said this in an exlusive interview with weinformer.com in Kisenyi.

He said was when dialogue is given chance; there will once again be a peaceful co-existence between the police and the people.

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

Recent weeks have seen the public criticise the police force for what they say is a use of brutality to the citizens.

The crisis was mainly caused by an uproar from the public after local television stations broadcast footages of stick- wielding policemen lashing out at members of the opposition who were recently jubilating the release on bail of 4 time presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye.

Besigye had been incarcerated in Luzira maximum prison where he spent close to 2 months after being charged with treason.

The police force reacted by arraigning some of the officers in court and charged with using excessive force on opposition supporters and tarnishing the name of the force.

However, a section of about 20 lawyers have since filled a case against the Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura and other senior officers saying they should appear in court to answer to charges of torture. The case is currently at the chief magistrate’s court in Makindye.

Other sections of Civil Society have also castigated the police including by rights activists, legislators and development partners following the beating up of Besigye’s support something they say was under mining human rights.

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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 into Uganda on Monday and today he has held talks with Ugandan president Museveni. On Wednesday Bellingham will visit Singo military school to see by himself whether the funds UK has been channeling to Uganda for military developed has been used properly.

A source that over heard the details of the meeting Bellingham held with President Museveni, intimated to us that the UK minister asked president Museveni why there is too much demonstrations, police brutality, corruption, lawlessness, land grabbing and reported cases of vote rigging in Uganda.

Bellingham reportedly asked Museveni to control acts of violence his soldiers and police commit on civilians because such acts one day might force the International Court of Justice to probe the leaders of Uganda.

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Besigye, also a member of Activists for Change (A4c) was suspected by the government to have had plans of addressing a press conference on police brutality at his offices on Katonga Road in Kampala.

The sources in police told journalists that the force feared that Besigye and his cohorts were going to expose cases of police brutality in which tens of Ugandans reportedly lost their lives. The sources said exposing such information to the public raises peoples’ emotions. However, the police worked on wrong information because the said press conference was set to be addressed by the A4C coordinator MP Mathias Mpuuga but not Besigye.

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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 of Kyambogo University and the good Samaritans rushed them to Mulago Hospital in critical condition. Also some students suffocated after the policemen reportedly fired tear gas in their rooms.

Business around Nkumba and Kyambogo universities also came to a standstill after the students’ lit fire in the middle of the roads.

The students blocked the roads this time protesting against the increasing police brutality in Kampala. The students also shattered door and window glasses of cars and buildings.

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