KAMPALA THUGS DEVISE DESPERATE MEANS TO FINISH THEIR VICTIMS

After they have been cornered into center, the Kampala thugs have now devised new means to finish off their victims. They use eggs and their target is mainly those people driving at night and in lonely places.

A security source has told the Uganda Drone that If you are driving at night and eggs are thrown at your windscreen, do not stop to check the car, do not operate the wiper and do not spray any water, because eggs mixed with water become milky and block your vision up to 92.5%, and you are then forced to stop beside the road and become a victim of these criminals. This is a new technique used by gangs.

It should be remembered that thugs are keen on devising new techniques whenever they are cornered. But as they devise new techniques police also come up with new crack-whips. This circus clings on.

Three years ago, the police reintroduced the 2002 Operation Wembley method in which security personnel were advised to shoot-to-kill suspected robbers on sight. The method once condemned by human rights activists was supposed to counter armed robberies that had risen to heights.

Police announced the Force had instructed its crack unit  Flying Squad – to deal with robbers in an effort to break the back of suspects behind organised crimes especially in Kampala and its suburbs. The order followed a crisis meeting held at the Kampala Metropolitan Police headquarters, following the shooting of a police officer on duty, and his gun being stolen, city police spokesperson then Ibin Ssenkumbi told journalists.

He said despite opposition from human rights activists, the re-introduced violent crackdown method would help reduce the rotation and circulation of suspected violent criminals in the country. We are mandated by law to put people who are found with guns out of action. These kind of criminals will not be taken beyond the scene of crime, Ssenkumbi said.

They are organised, keep rotating around the city and come back from where they started. We have to act before our officers are killed, Ssenkumbi said. When you look at the way they steal the guns and kill policemen, these individuals are trained and we cannot rule out the possibility that some of them have worked in security organisations, but these guns are in the wrong hands, Ssenkumbi added.

Human rights activists were quick to oppose the new police move, saying the method would amount to extra-judicial executions, which is against the rights guaranteed under the Constitution. Such operations cannot be allowed to take place because sometimes the individual maybe mistaken and some may even use the policy to settle personal vendettas. The general principle is that people should be heard, Livingstone Ssewanyana, the executive director Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, said.