Police officers secretly charging Kiseka Market traders to access their motor spares
Traders and customers of Kiseka Market in Kampala have revealed to The Drone Media that police officers are secretly charging them some money whenever they go to pick motor spares from their lock ups.
The police officers reportedly charge both traders and customers. One of the two victims has said;’…..I called my mechanic asking to buy some spare parts from Kiseka Market and he advised me to come over if I could cough some money. I later joined him, but we found both entries to the newly constructed lock ups at Kyaggwe Road and from Gaddaffi Road closed with a rope and it was manned by mean looking officers in uniforms.”
The source explained that he spoke to one of the officers, who advised them to follow William Street and pass behind Kampala Capital City Council Authority (KCCA) Central Division offices and then use the access corridor near Mt. Zion Hotel to Kiseka market.
Here the corridors are reportedly heavily guarded but guards charge sh 20, 000 to sh 30, 000 to allow a pair go down the market to access motor spares.
Worse still if you reach the market you have to first get permission (a code) from an officer whose name The Drone Media has learnt is Sande, wearing the madoa doa police uniform.
Our source said that one pocketed sh 100, 000 to let them go behind to buy all what they wanted. They bought and left the place. Suppose they carried coronavirus (COVID-19) God knows!
Our source said that what hurt him was not the money, lunch or whatever he was made to pay to them, but to realize that no anti COVID-19 measures like hand washing, mask wearing or anything emphasizing protection yet they found there so many people.
This shows that the lockdown also known here as quarantine and curfew is up to hurt common man. It is, honestly, not protecting the public from COVID-19. This is what happened at Entebbe International Airport when COVID-19 had broken out. Government officials were smuggling their people out of quarantine, endangering the rest of Ugandans.
Honestly, how about some traders and would be customers who may have not excess money to impress these guys on guard? Administration of police around Kampala, we are waiting for your reaction.