The Inspector General of Police Gen Kale Kayihura has shaken up the police media department, bringing in Andree Felix Kaweesi to ‘stand in’ for long-serving Fred Enanga.
According to available information, Commissioner of Police (CP) Enanga is away on assignment, while his deputy Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Polly Namaye and Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) spokesperson Superintendent Patrick Onyango have been sent to study.
By press time it was not possible to establish the replacements for ACP Namaye and Supt. Onyango.
The changes come in the wake of a sustained negative publicity stunt that engulfed the police hierarchy following the beating of citizens by officers on duty to monitor the travels of opposition key figure Dr Kizza Besigye after his release from a two-month incarceration in Luzira prison on treason charges.
Since then, the IGP and seven other senior police officers have been dragged to court, though they have failed to turn up. Their failure to appear before court however, has not been without drama; first, goons who are reportedly supporters of the IGP raided and disrupted proceedings at the Makindye magistrate’s court, where Gen Kayihura had been scheduled to appear August 10.
Then his boss, minister of Internal Affairs Gen Abubaker Jeje Odong took to the microphone at the Media Centre last week, and suggested the IGP would not go to court when he is next required to, on August 29. “…What we are talking about is a gentleman performing his constitutional duties. Therefore, we would be talking about General Kale Kayihura, the institution, and not General Kale Kayihura, the individual… Therefore, when you are talking about going to court, it is the institution and not the individual,” Gen Odongo was quoted by local media as saying.
