It was heartless razing down the stalls in the barracks

Dec 10, 2009

EDITOR—I am not a Police officer but I sympathise with Police officers because of what I read in the press concerning their standards of living.

EDITOR—I am not a Police officer but I sympathise with Police officers because of what I read in the press concerning their standards of living.

I was dismayed to hear that a certain heartless and overzealous officer had razed down stalls at Jinja Road and Ntinda
Police barracks where the Police officers’ wives used to sell charcoal and matooke
to support the meagre earnings of their husbands. I hear an officer in the estates department gave the order claiming the stalls were causing insecurity.

One wonders how a stall selling charcoal or bananas can cause
insecurity in a Police barracks.

These stalls were giving employment to over 1,000 people so destroying them is actually going to cause insecurity because the people who were earning a living from them may turn to criminal activities.

These criminals might include the very policemen who earn peanuts. The Police Sports Club is already closed leaving the Police FC team with nowhere to base their activities. It is now bushy and deserted. The Inspector General of Police should intervene and save the suffering Police officers.

Tema Kafeero
Nansana

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