The executive director of African Centre for Treatment and rehabilitation of torture victims Samuel Herbert Nsubuga says calls to have the bill passed into an act have not yielded much yet torture continues.

Torture on the increase in Uganda

Nsubuga says a draft of the prohibition and prevention of the torture bill as presented before Parliament in 2009 but not much has been done yet.

He now challenged the 9^th Parliament to take on the process of passing the bill if the victims of torture are to be accorded justice.

A new report by KIOS Development Consultants launched yesterday, shows a decline in torture cases in the country in the last 5 years excluding the events of this year.

The highest form of torture recorded was the systematic beating of victims.

By Isaac Senabulya

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Speaking to journalists after taking an oath Mpuga said that issues of democracy and human rights still need a lot of attention in Uganda

He says that with a limited democratic space in the country there can never be development. Mpuga who is the Coordinator of the opposition led walk to work protests says that people should first learn to demand from government what is due to them before the country can think of development.

The MP who is a former minister in Buganda kingdom also notes that he wants parliament to put government on pressure to start serving the people than the people serving the government.

Busiro east MP Medard Lubega Segoona also a former minister in Buganda Kingdom says that he is going to make sure that he fights for the rights of the people. Segona says that he is going to use all means to make sure that parliament defends the people against security organs who have become hostile to the public.

By Isaac Senabulya

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