WHAT IS EATING UP THE UGANDA POLICE?

          

When we were still in school we learnt that the role of the police is to keep law and order. May be because the times have changed and it is well known that everything keeps changing.  

The Ugandan police has not been left behind by these changes we are having in the world and to the many Ugandans out there, the main and most important  role of this police force is to keep the National Resistance Movement government  in power for as long as it can.

 That is its main mandate and then the rest of the Ugandans can come to it for protection.

 If you want to know whether this theory is true, just organise a protest against this government and you will see the way in which they will respond to you. 

If the Ugandan police could respond in that manner to the very many killings that we have been having in this country, we would not be losing our relatives and friends to assailants.

 Although we thought the problem of the police was Gen. Kale Kayihura but it seems this problem goes just beyond the man himself and enters deep into the structures of this force. 

The appearance of  Mr.Kirumira who was once a member of this force on the scene has revealed a lot about the decay in this force which is supposed to help keep the citizens and their properties safe. 

The big security issues within the police started when the killings of women around Entebbe in Wakiso district exploded out of hand and almost every day we could not fail to hear of news about the death of a woman in that area. 

The sad thing is that these killings were taking place just near the statehouse where the President of the republic of Uganda actually resides.

 Each and everyday we could wake up to only find one woman dead  who has been raped by her killers as police kept running around pretending to carry out investigations. 

This went out of hand which actually resulted into the killing of the police spokesperson Late Andrew Felix Kaweesi who was a good policeman and a very hardworking citizen of this country. 

Today, we look at Uganda and ask where is the security that President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his comrades claimed they were fighting for. 

May be they did not fight for Ugandans but only fought for themselves and their families.  

During the burial ceremony of the late Andrew Felix Kaweesi, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said that police had been infiltrated by criminals although he was not able to know which criminals these were and asked Gen. Kayihura to help clean up the police force.  

But the truth is police is infiltrated by people who want to keep the NRM government into power for as long as they can. They do not mind about ordinary Ugandans but they mind about themselves and their families.  

If you do not protect Ugandans be sure that one day Ugandans will just get tired of this government and before you know it you will become a Mugabe or worse still Col. Muammar Gaddaffi. 

I do agree the NRM government has done some great things in this country but they need not to relax but instead keep on moving forward.

 In the recent years, this government relaxed about security and instead started concentrating on maintaining power and consolidating it in the hands of their leader President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

 When the crimes like killings of women in Entebbe escalated, we were told by the ruling government that these crimes would be solved and the investigations were still going on but to the surprise of majority of people in Uganda, these crimes have not been solved and it seems there is even no hope that they will ever be solved. 

The criminals have even now changed their strategies as I write article. These criminals have now gone into kidnapping and asking for a ransom after getting hold of their victims. 

There was one case where two children were kidnapped just at their gate at home and then a search for the missing children was launched by their parents and neighbours but to no avail. 

It was then that one evening when a man found a sack that was dumped by the road side and when he opened the sack, he was shocked to find bodies of the two missing children. How sad that was. 

The police which claim to help protect Ugandans recently came out and said that it was overwhelmed by the crimes that were being committed and it said that it needed the help of the public in helping it fight the criminals.  

Surely, if the police itself cannot fight the criminals, how on earth do they expect unarmed Ugandan citizens to protect themselves from gangsters and drug addicts who are mercilessly butchering our children and relatives.

 May be we need a total overhaul of the police force so that we  are sure that the police is no longer infiltrated by the criminals as was said by president Yoweri Museveni. 

Should Ugandans take their security matters into their own hands or should we just continue and look on like nothing ever happened in this country called the pearl of Africa. 

Does this country even still deserve to be called the pearl of Africa or we should change the title to the pearl of death? 

I think the biggest mistake that the Ugandan police is making is that it is entering deep into the politics of the day and forgetting it’s real mandate of protecting innocent Ugandans from criminals who are threatening their security with guns and deaths.

 Another big problem in this country also is that there is no separation of power among the different arms of government in this country and that is causing a very big problem and chaos everywhere in this country.  

We cannot forget the episode that took place in the Ugandan parliament where security officials raided the house and started beating up representatives of the people. 

That is how the rule of law in this country has degenerated into and if nothing is done, I think it will not be bad for me to say that we may just follow the Mugabe route or worse still follow the Muamar Gadaffi road and end up like the once powerful and beautiful country of Libya.

 May God protect Ugandans and their property from greedy and corrupt leaders who do not know what it means to be given the chance to rule the pearl of Africa.