COMMISSIONER KARUGABA LETTER TO IGP KAYIHURA ON STATE OF UGANDAN POLICE TODAY
Bizarrely this letter was written at time of commemorating the police 100 years of existence in Uganda,it must have passed through the media lenses,its incredible piece of a scathing attack on the IGP Kale Kayihura by a commissioner of police Karugaba. As a preamble i extract an except; " I am old enough to have seen the Colonial Police in action, and I know that they promptly arrested murderers, rapists, robbers, thieves etc and promptly produced them before courts of law, a far cry from your UPF of today. You know this very well: I saw with you in the same Criminal Law classes at Makerere. We quoted criminal case precedents from that era. The UPF will have to prove its legitimacy through effective operation, often through direct engagement with citizens on the ground. Political partisanship on your part and the growth of crime in Uganda have in many cases undercut the development of democrati...