A section of members of Parliament want the Public Order Management Act evaluated. Addressing a press conference at Parliament in Kampala on Monday, April 15, MPs including Fred Turyamuheza (Rujumbura County) Francis Mwijukye (Buhweju County) Roland Mugume (Rukungiri Municipality) as well as Joseph Sewungu (Kalungu West) called for evaluation on how police has been implementing […]
A section of members of Parliament want the Public Order Management Act evaluated.
Addressing a press conference at Parliament in Kampala on Monday, April 15, MPs including Fred Turyamuheza (Rujumbura County) Francis Mwijukye (Buhweju County) Roland Mugume (Rukungiri Municipality) as well as Joseph Sewungu (Kalungu West) called for evaluation on how police has been implementing the law.
The lawmakers have vowed to take on the police and human rights organs is within the country for sleeping on the job while democratic space in the country is shrinking.
Mwijukye said: “The party president is meeting executive members of districts, sub-counties or constituencies, police are saying you must produce a letter from the IGP and yet the law is clear that such meetings of recruitment aren’t defined in this law as public meetings. We are saying that police is abusing this law.”
Mr. Ssewungu said there is need to have the Public Order Management Act reviewed in the bid to foster a leveled political playing field arguing that failure to carry out an evaluation will lay fertile ground for Police to deliberately attack the country’s political space under the guise of implementing the law.
“We shall not allow this, we are going to fight it but I think it is high time as MPs we carry out evaluation on how the Public Order Management Act has been handled and find out what has happened,” Ssewungu said.
