IGP Byakagaba commends Omala’s tireless service to police force
“I commend Omala whose tireless service and commitment to maintaining law and order left an indelible mark on the institution."
Arrow Security Group Chief Executive Officer and retired army officer, Capt. Mike Mukula laying a wreath on his Omala's casket at All Saints Church Nakasero Kampala. (Photos by Isaac Nuwagaba)
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The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Abas Byakagaba, has commended the exemplary service that the former Kampala North Police Operations Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Sam Omala, offered to the Uganda Police Force until retirement.
Omala who joined the police in 1986 as a police constable was passed out at Kabalye in Masindi district. He retired in 2020.
During a funeral service at All Saints Church Nakasero in Kampala on Thursday (May 01), Commissioner of Police Moses Otaala Oburu who presented Byakagaba's message to the congregation hailed Omala for his unwavering dedicated service and outstanding contributions to the force.
CP Moses Otaala Oburu who represented IGP Abas Byakagaba (middle) with Capt. Mike Mukula during the service at All Saints Church Nakasero 
Omala who was born on March 1, 1960, died on April 29, 2025, at the age of 64 years. He survived with 16 children (including 10 boys) and 29 grandchildren. He is also survived by two widows, Josephine Omala and Harriet Nalubwama.
After a protracted battle against kidney failure and prostate cancer, Omala breathed his last at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala on Monday.
A legacy of service
Arrow Security Group Chief Executive Officer Capt. Mike Mukula remarked that Omala reached his peak of service when he quelled the 2011 walk-to-work protests led by former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party president, Dr. Col. (rtd) Kiiza Besigye.
“Omala was a person who should have been recognised and given the highest honour for his service due to his exemplary service to the police force when the government needed disciplined officers to defend the constitution,” Mukula reminded.
"If it was not for Omala’s strict stance to Besigye’s revolutionary approach to capture the State House in broad daylight, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government under President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni would be long gone and forgotten,” he observed.
Son asks for forgiveness
Dvyn Mutukuvu Omala while eulogizing his father, asked Ugandans to forgive Omala and his family.
Shedding tears, Mutukuvu said quoting his father, “I am asking for forgiveness from all those that I have wronged during my time of service in the police and I have forgiven anybody whom I had grudges with before God decides my fate.”
“My father told me to apologize to everybody he wronged including Besigye whose protests he commanded to keep law and order in the city,” he lamented, “I am appealing to Ugandans to learn to forgive because we are different tribes, religions and political affiliation but we all work towards a better country like anybody else.”
Omala's burial is scheduled for Saturday at his ancestral home in Senda-Paskula village, Kirewa Parish, Kirewa Sub-County in Tororo district.