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Okay
Let me put this in perspective, let me
not draw conclusion on this barbaric act of Uganda Police, let me use the
postings of my fellow Ugandans who know matters about Uganda that I do.
1) Mwami Matovu
"I believe the
issues will be resolved amicably and the girls return to work or else the whole
Agoa drive will be dead losing Uganda millions of dollars." and "Lisa, I believe
the Police was called in because the girls had refused to vacate Company
property."
2)
Mwaami Musaazi
"The action of
the police was very right, the moment they barrackeded themselves in the
building and threatened to set it ablaze, they had fallen afoul of the
law
and left the police with little choice than to forcefully evict
them."
I wish these
Ugandans can post to me another sentence which goes as follows: The act of
Uganda Police Force was very right, for the journalists
had................................" But I do not think they
will.
May God help
our nation as she goes through these tribulations.
Em
The Mulindwas
Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
l'anarchie"
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Police beat up Vision scribes over AGOA
The custodians of the law turned into perpetrators of violence when
they beat up three New Vision journalists at the Tristar Apparel factory
in Bugolobi yesterday, reports Charles Musisi.
Police
arrested and handcuffed the journalists assigned to cover the strike by
AGOA girls, confiscated a new digital camera belonging to the company
and the scribes� notebooks.
�Why are you taking the photographs?
Who gave you permission?� the policemen asked.
Albert Ayiga
refused to surrender his camera. He passed it on to his colleague
Solomon Muyita who handed it over to Raymond Mikah all in rapid
succession.
Mikah broke into a marathon with three security men
in hot pursuit. They caught up with him near the Shell Bugolobi fuel
filling station where he was grabbed by the waist and dragged to the
factory as the policemen kicked and slapped him. Mikah was left limping
and his mobile phone destroyed.
Jinja Road Police commander Pius
Mutabazi and Benjamin Namanya, the Mobile Police boss witnessed the
incident. Other security men battered Muyita and Ondoga.
�You
are nothing. you can die and nothing is done about it. Do you know how
many we have killed?� a plain-clothes security operative said. A crowd,
which looked on in shock, was dispersed by the police.
The three
journalists were released from Jinja Road Police after the intervention
of police spokesman Asuman Mugenyi .
�They said they were acting
on orders from above as they beat us,� Muyita said.
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