RE: MY PEACEFUL HUNGER STRIKE AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL SQUARE

The IGP, General Edward Kale-Kayihura Dear Sir RE: MY PEACEFUL HUNGER STRIKE AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL SQUARE I hereby write to inform you that I am holding a non-violent hunger strike at the named venue. The major issue to highlight is the appalling welfare of the police officers ranging from horrible accommodation – many officers sleep in a tent right behind CPS, others share a unipot between four families while others including high ranking officers sleep in asbestos houses contrary to ILO Asbestos Convention. Their pay is too meager to afford them basics yet they work for almost eighteen hours. The dysfunctional healthcare system, disoriented education system and exorbitant university fees which in 2009 were hiked up to 26% in public universities doesn’t spare the police. Consequently, they have been brutalised psychologically, are hopeless, normless and frustrated. They have thus turned their frustration against innocent civilians asserting their rights akin to a woman who turns her anger against children when her husband mistreats her. I informed you through your PA and informed AIGP Kawesi and nobody seems to care. But also I have informed Prof Mushemeza and other people including media houses and human rights defenders. There is no better time than now when the IPU conference is being hosted here. The purpose of the letter, therefore, is not to seek permission but to demand for security since the constitutional square is guarded by military police – red top. I am a Ugandan with a right to exercise my God-given rights. I accordingly demand justice or death. Yours, Vincent Nuwagaba Human Rights Defender Email: vnuwagaba@gmail.com