Museveni Hails CCTV Cameras in Fight Against Crime

By Kampala Post Reporter

President Yoweri Museveni has attributed Tuesday’s arrest of one of the suspects in the gruesome murder of a bodaboda cyclist to the effectiveness of the CCTV cameras.

Museveni says the cameras were able to capture the image of the criminals, which police followed. He affirmed that nobody would destroy the peace of Uganda that the country has had for a very long time.

“Recently we had crimes arising from weevils in the Police who used to work with the criminals and which we found out. We are still trying to remove more weevils from the Police Force,” he said. Johnbosco Mugisha, also known as Mukiga was arrested on Tuesday for killing a bodaboda cyclist, Derrick Mulindwa in Rubaga on June 30.

The gruesome incident in which the two criminals strangled and later shuttered the cyclist’s head with a hammer, was captured by CCTV cameras of a neighbouring school. The footage was widely shared by the police for the public to help in identifying the criminals and have them arrested.

The president revealed that government is planning to install electronic tracking devices in vehicles and motorcycles to be able to identify them in case issues like accidents and crime arise. He explained that this was not going to invade anybody’s privacy but would help to follow up easily and combat crime.

This was during a wealth and job creation meeting held at Lugogo Cricket ground in Kampala on Thursday where the president met NRM leaders of Kampala, Wakiso Districts and the business community. Museveni called upon the leaders to teach people in the villages to shift from subsistence to commercial calculative agriculture. He advised them to embrace the four-acre model and noted that activities, such as mushroom growing, are not only limited to villages but can also be grown in the pre-urban centers’ settings.

Meanwhile in a joint memorandum from Kampala and Wakiso Districts that was presented by Engineer Andrew Kitata, of KCCA, President Museveni was thanked for starting up the ‘skilling the girl child” programme that was initiated in Kampala and is now being taken up in other districts. The memorandum proposed that government projects aimed at increasing household incomes be done at the parish level and be based on what people can do.

The districts proposed the development of Artisan Parks to improvise work premises, churn out quality products and secure market opportunities for the youth groups. A request was also made for Wakiso to become a City. During the meeting President Museveni was also endorsed by the leaders of the two districts as the NRM sole candidate for 2021 elections. He was also gifted with a Kanzu and a spear to continue leading the country.