Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has called for dismissal and trial of the five suspects who brutally tortured Yusuf Kawooya, a Democratic Party (DP) member.
Party Spokesperson who doubles as Kira Municipality MP, Ibrahim Semujju Nganda has said.
Semujju was responding to President Yoweri Museveni’s guidelines to security agencies.
In a footage that went viral, Kawooya was 10 days back arrested by plainclothes men in broad daylight on Colville Street near Christ the King Church in the city centre, boxed and beaten with rifle butts as he pleaded for mercy.
The Five military suspects were paraded before the UPDF Unit Disciplinary Court and pleaded guilty to unprofessional conduct while carrying out the arrest.
In the guidelines, Museveni said, concerned people told him the suspect had fought the arresting security officer. “That is very serious because some of the criminals have got infectious diseases. Our officer can be infected in that way and that should be an extra charge put on him. The appropriate response would have been to box him hard so that he stops biting our office,”
Semujju Contended that the perpetrators should be ashamed, tried in civilian courts under ant torture act and everyone know that these are the security officers who beat and assault people on streets.
“But by the moment you do a cover up like president Museveni is doing, under disciplinary and management action, you will be encouraging others to do the same thing. The video was all over social media and aired by all local televisions, he should learn to look for correct information even when people tell him lies,” he said
Museveni implored his officers to use fire arms only when it cannot be avoided, use them if other means are ineffective to achieve, in self-defense or in defence of others against imminent threat of death or serious injury and other guidelines.