President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni PHOTO/FILE
By:Admin
Kampala
President Museveni has told police officers to stop corruption practices.
Mr Museveni Tibuhaburwa was meeting senior police officers led by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Gen Paul Lokech, at State House Entebbe over the weekend.
A joint survey by the Inspectorate of Government and Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos), revealed that 70 per cent of respondents in 128 functional districts at the time of the poll, named the regular police as the most corrupt.
However, this is not the first time Police has been named as a corrupt institution of government, the norm has been quite constant in previous reports done by different stakeholders.
The president, in the same meeting, tasked the force on proper methods of arresting suspects.
Police officers have been cited in numerous reports as one the leading government body that violate human rights.
The police have consecutively for the past three years topped the list of violators of press freedom.
They have been severally accused by human rights activists of misapplying the Public Order Management Act to unfairly restrict legitimate assemblies of rights defenders, political civil actors.
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