Tag: Beatings

Colonel Okello Egola Says Soldiers Who beat up People are From West Africa, not UPDF

Posted on by Deborah

Majority of the Ugandans have witnessed the brutality during demonstrations and campaigns through various videos making rounds on Media. Some people have been permanently injured, others killed, and others left with great expenses to deal with. Colonel Okello Egola, before the defence committee said that the men in Uniform were from a West African Country and not the UPDF. In a short video shared by NBS TV, in which a dialogue was taking place, the colonel denied all the claims that UPDF Soldiers mistreated the population.

“You cannot prove this is a UPDF,“he said, ” Get us the soldiers, get us the pictures, so that we go and trace.”

Journalists To Demonstrate against Security Forces Beatings

Posted on by Deborah

The past couple of months have been a hard one for the journalists in Uganda. To bring the news to us fast, effective and reliably, they have undergone beatings and all sorts of inhumane treatment from our security forces. While trying to cover various stories that affect the state, they have been beaten, and some videos deleted/ camera’s confiscated from them. The Uganda Journalists Association has come up to stand against these acts of oppression.

Journalist being beaten

The first step to this demonstration is a petition to the Speaker of Parliament Hon Rebecca Kadaga challenging the issue at hand. Their request is for the organ to stand and stop the police from the manhandling that they are apparently engaged in. The petition is to be delivered at 9 am this Friday. A day that has been declared a “Black Friday” in the day of the Ugandan Journalists.

“We are choosing the constitutional square as the starting point of this peaceful protest to the August house”. The President of the Association, Hajji Kazibwe Bashir Mbaziira mentioned.

Lets all stand together as Journalists to support this cause. See you There!