PRISONERS TO BEGIN EARNING FROM PRISON SERVICES
The Commissioner General of Prisons, Dr Johnson Byabashaija has said that all prisoners providing labour to both private and government projects must be paid in hard cash.
While presiding over the ninth Annual General Meeting of the Uganda Prisons Savings and Credit Cooperative Society at Luzira prison, Dr Byabashaija said that prisoners are not slaves to offer free labour even through they are in prison.
It is legal for prisoners to work but they must be paid whenever they work depending on their capacities. There is no more slave work in the modern world,Byabashaija said, warning that officers who fail to comply would be punished.
The payment, according to Dr Byabashaija, is in line with the law signed by the Minister of Internal
Affairs in 2000.
According to the law, skilled labour is supposed to be paid Shs500 per day, semi-skilled labourers Shs200 while the unskilled labour is Shs100.
Meanwhile a Libyan court has sentenced Muammar Gadafi’s son Saif Al-Islam to death over war crimes committed during the protest against his father’s rule.
In other news: The Mbarara police are holding one of their own and other two on allegations of Aggravated robbery of motor vehicle of an army officer.
Constable Driver Isaac Segewa 30 years attached to Central Police Station Kampala, Edward Tugume 30years a resident of Kakyeka and Godwin Twesigye 27years a resident of Katete all in Mbarara Municipality are in police cells on allegations of car robbery.
The Rwizi region police spokes person Vincent Ssekate says that the trio were arrested in the ongoing police operations and they are alleged that they are the ones who stole a car reg. no. UAE 822P belong to the UPDF officer attached to 2nd Division Makenke barracks who operates in Mbarara referral hospital.
Ssekate says that the investigations are already in progress and the file is to be taken to Resident State Attorney for legal advice and they will be taken to court as soon as the file is sanctioned by state attorney.
Ssekate reveals that since this year began, they have registered at least 25 cases related with motor vehicle theft and as police they have managed to recover 5 vehicles and given back to their owners.
He appeals to all vehicle owners to always not trust ant own with vehicle keys as these thieves mostly connive with these parking yards, Happening places guards they get spares of the keys and end up stealing the vehicles.