Fred Yiga receives a strange call on DRC registered phone
Assistant Inspector General of Police Dr. Fred Yiga, who is also the Director of Interpol Uganda, reportedly received a strange phone call on a DRC registered number.
A source told The Drone Media that, actually, the phone call was a death threat. This comes after an amiable Fred Yoga had made a comment on the brutal arrest of a one Yusuf Kawooya.
Yiga yesterday described the arrest of Yusuf Kawooya as on Kampala streets; at Christ the King, by armed goons, as gross abuse of human rights.
Nobody could tell whether these were security operatives or thugs. The manner in which they carried out their operation was scary!
This kind of arrest instils fear if not terror among Ugandans. This is how the refugees were repatriated to Rwanda and later executed!
Read Kawooya’s story
The man who resisted arrest and was seen being battered by the tough men welding war guns has been found to belong to Uganda Young Democrats (UYD ) and Democratic Party (DP) respectively.
Mean while pressure is mounting on the Uganda Police Force to hunt down and identify the four armed men who were on Thursday filmed battering the man.
The victim has been positively identified as Yusuf Kawooya a resident of Kitintale in Nakawa Division and a political activist of UYD and DP.
Kawooya was roughed up in the city center and a brief film by an armature video photographer of the incident was captured and has since gone viral.
Yesterday members of UYD called a press conference and condemned the violent acts under which one of their own went through.
A source claim that Kawooya is a single father who separated with the mother of his three children, but is a political activist who has never used wrong ways to oppose the regime. He wondered how the state could use such a force on a simple unarmed civilian.
Another source intimated to us that Kawooya was likely to have been locked up in Mbuya military facility.
However, army spokesman Brig Richard Kalemire was not available to confirm this.
Kawooya’s children were by yesterday still stranded at his rented house with no knowledge of where to start from.
This comes at the time when there is fury over the impunity and callousness of the abductors. Minister of ICT and National Guidance, Frank Tumwebaze yesterday demanded for the arrest and identification of the culprits.
“Police should investigate them,” he said. “Anybody acting illegally should be dealt with in accordance with the law…. (IGP) Okoth Ochola, we demand to know these people,” Tumwebaze sounded.
The incident took place on Thursday afternoon at Portal Avenue close to Christ the King Church in Kampala.
The abductors were filmed as they gun-butted the man in the chest and stomach, and dragged him on the street before bundling him into a waiting taxi number UAF 325S before it drove off.
Commenting on the incident, senior Journalist, Andrew Mwenda described the abductors as “goons who behave like 15th century thugs in the 21st century” “Who employs them to roam the streets?
This impunity is too much! The fact that they don’t even think of doing such horrible things in the cover of darkness or in a remote safe house is revealing,” he wrote.