Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector Overall of Police—IGP Abas Byakagaba— has warned regional, divisional, and district commanders against committing reckless operational mistakes as political events tools up for primaries sooner than next yr’s popular elections.
Byakagaba summoned RPCs and DPCs for a two-day retreat at Naguru police headquarters and tasked every of them to devise security plans for celebration primaries for his or her respective jurisdictions.
Political celebration primaries, mostly for the Nationwide Resistance Motion (NRM), derive over time been known for being essentially the most chaotic, as several folks derive been injured. Many NRM aspirants derive frequently accused security forces of being paid to lead or interfere with primaries for sure candidates.
In 2020, President Yoweri Museveni suggested then IGP Martin Okoth Ochola to conduct investigations with the assist of CID to attract sure that whoever was as soon as culpable was as soon as apprehended.
Some cops in the Bukedi space derive been arrested and even charged with matters associated to NRM primaries. In other areas, equivalent to Kazo, Kiruhura, and Sembabule, the defense power was as soon as cited as interfering with the NRM celebration primaries.
As a result, the political and elections department at CID registered essentially the most instances of political violence in the midst of NRM primaries, despite the proven fact that essentially the most lethal ones derive been in November in the midst of presidential campaigns.
This day, I opened a two-day retreat at @PoliceUg Headquarters in Naguru for regional and divisional/ District police commanders.
The retreat is timely, given the ongoing preparations for the 2026 popular elections.
I in actuality derive encouraged the officers to part experiences and… pic.twitter.com/kTZWKOMjNv
— ABAS BYAKAGABA (@igp_ug1) June 26, 2025
Senior cops who attended the RPCs and DPCs retreat derive revealed that the IGP has cautioned them against taking aspects for any political celebration or baby-kisser since such could per chance likely also fuel chaos.
All RPCs and DPCs derive reportedly been directed to attract weekly or even day-to-day reports to the Salvage 22 situation of job of Operations Products and services (OPS) Assistant Inspector Overall of Police—AIGP Frank Mwesigwa.
The Police Public Kinfolk Division, headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police –ACP Kituuma Rusoke, has mentioned the meeting was as soon as supposed to focus on about key policing issues, suggestions, and challenges.
The Electoral Rate chairman Justice Simon Byamakama also addressed the meeting.
NRM is at this time conducting the nomination job sooner than the primaries, whereas the submission of forms of curiosity for reasonably a pair of positions in the Nationwide Unity Platform (NUP) is ongoing.
The Of us’s Platform for Freedom (PFF) and Democratic Front (DF) are restful calling upon people to assemble curiosity forms so as that they’ll possible be vetted for optional positions sooner than the 2026 popular elections.
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