Safia Nalule who is also the vice chairperson on the parliamentary committee on Human Rights said that it was absurd for police to torture and keeping the mayor of Kamwenge Geoffrey Byamukama for five months in police cell yet no  serious case was against him.

Kamwenge Mayor tortured after Afande Kawesi’s killings

She said that people should be arrested when there is evidence of the crime committed. Nalule is also concerned that some police  officers go beyond and torture men their private parts .

She said that her committee in few weeks will summon bosses f security agencies to explain why they preside over torture against the civilians when there enough laws to deal with the suspects.

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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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‎A senior police officer, Anatoli Mulekyewa has revealed that their force tortures civilians in order to please the ruling government.

The officer was speaking at the closure of a one day human rights workshop organised by Hurinet -Uganda in Nkumba University, Kampala.

 Mulekyelwa when he was put to task to explain to the participants about the democratic policies and the ‘nrmisation’ of the police force, he confessed that he serves the ruling NRM government and he has a duty of sheepishly defending it.

The participants were also taken through the anti-torture act and the proposed weird public order management bill which is currently before Uganda parliament.

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Peter Ogwang says he was tortured by state operatives

The revelation was made by officials from the commission while presenting its 14^th Annual report for 2011 to parliament’s human rights committee.

The commission said the top five alleged violations remained the same as those registered in 2010 and included torture, detention beyond 48 hours, and complaints about the rights of children and deprivation of life.

the acting chairperson Agaba Maguru said torture cases increased from 276 in 2010 to 428 in 2011.

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Yesterday I attendedBugandaroad court inKampalawhere 53 treason suspects appeared. One of the suspects was Florence Aliano , a 58 year old widow.

Florencealleges that when she was brutally arrested in January this year and detained at the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI), she was over tortured.

She says that she was beaten with strong electricity wires, the back of her neck was repeatedly hit, slapped, slept on a cold concrete floor without any covering and she was not allowed to visit the toilet for long time. She broke down into tears as she narrated her ordeal.

Another suspect, who feared to mention his name here says president Museveni’s regime has “perfected torture.”

 He asked people who had turned to the court to look at him. This suspect had no physical scars but he was in severe pain and the mental scars, he says may live with him for life.

The good news was that some of the suspects had their charges withdrawn against them. Some of the suspects who were set free told journalists that Museveni’s government had turned their lives upside down.

Ms Florence Aliano was taken back to Luzira awaiting a trial date at the high court.

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It seems the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government is determined to curb the spirit of treason and concealment of treason from Ugandans.

We have heard that Uganda security operatives a few days back arrested an opposition sympathizer, Michael Kabazigurika and a couple of other people and beat them to near death in a bid to extract the spirit of rebelling against NRM government.

Kabazigurika and other souls he was arrested with are now nursing broken ribs and other torture marks from Uganda government security operatives.

Accusation of rebellion and treason is an old weapon that has been constantly used by president Museveni’s government. For instance, the Black mamba soldiers siege of the High Court (which act some people referred to as the ‘rapping of the judiciary’), the reported torture of civilians during Col. Noble Mayombo heydays, the return of Col. Kiiza Besigye from South Africa in 2005, his arrest and treason frame-up on the one hand and the incarceration and death of his brother Musasizi Kifefe, the arrest of hundreds of people in Buganda, Acholi, Western Uganda,  are all having one common string. The outgoing president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Col. Besigye sums up cases of torture in Uganda as a spiritual obsession with a mystery rebellion against the most cowardly president Museveni’s Uganda government. Besigye says he will never reconcile with Museveni’s government due to the torture it has imprinted on the skins of opposition leaders and supporters.

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The lawyers told the media in Kampala that they want the prohibition and prevention of Torture Bill once passed into an act to punish both state actors and private persons who violate peoples’ rights.

The ‘Learned Friends’ also demand that the people whose rights have been violated by the state and private actors be compensated.

Uganda is one of the countries in the world which tortures suspects in order to obtain information.

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However he suggests that the law should be balanced to protect the people who collect information from suspects which can be used for successful prosecution.

Muluri who was giving views on this bill before the committee, says that if the bill is not balanced, the people responsible for interrogating suspects will fear to do their work well.

The bill was tabled before parliament as a private members bill by Ndorwa east mp Wilfred Niwagaba to make torture a crime.

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