Play your role, CID boss urges Law Development Centre students
Magambo emphasised the nexus between strategic security, law and order, and the socio-economic transformation of Ugandans.
The Director of Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID), Tom Magambo, delivering a lecture of opportunity to the LDC students. (Courtesy photoss)
By NewVision Reporter
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The Director of Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID), Tom Magambo, has urged 1,278 students at the Law Development Centre in Kampala to play their role in the transformation of their country.
Magambo, the Assistant Inspector General of Police, made the call on September 4, 2025, while delivering a lecture of opportunity to the LDC students.
The focus of the discussion was the role of the young generation in Uganda’s transformation journey, the CID said in a brief statement posted on X, formerly Twitter.
Magambo emphasised the nexus between strategic security, law and order, and the socio-economic transformation of Ugandans.
He recently noted that when President Yoweri Museveni and other bush-war fighters came to power in January 1986, there were certain problems that were affecting society at that time and equally today.
“But today’s problems affecting our society are different from those of 1986. For instance, we heard a story that for you to leave Kampala and go to Kisoro, it had to take you seven days because there was no [tarmac] road and we had only UTC (Uganda Transport Company),” Magambo recalled.
He recalled that the murram road would become impassable whenever it rained. “And we didn’t also have phones,” he said, emphasising how things have changed in Uganda over the last 39 years.
The President says to achieve the desired socio-economic transformation, Ugandans need to get involved in the money economy through the four sectors of the economy, which include commercial agriculture, industries/manufacturing, services and ICT.