Police assures on security on New Year's Eve

Dec 30, 2014

The Police have assured Ugandans preparing to take part in different festivities and celebrations as they end the year 2014 and welcoming the New Year of tight security to protect life and property.


By Eddie Ssejjoba   

The Police have assured Ugandans preparing to take part in different festivities and celebrations as they end the year 2014 and welcoming the New Year of tight security to protect life and property.


Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman Patrick Onyango said all preparations had been done to protect Ugandans as they usher in the New Year on December 31.

Onyango said police will be joined by the army and other sister security agencies in places where big crowds will gather to ensure people celebrating and worshiping get maximum security.

He was Tuesday addressing journalists at a press conference at Nakivubo Stadium organized by Bishop David Kiganda of Christianity Focus Center in preparation for the 9th Annual National Prayer Day 2014 at Nakivubo Stadium.
 
The theme of the day, 'Heads not Tails' is picked from Deut. 28:13.

Several security officials attended the briefing including Kampala Metropolitan North commander, Wesley Nganizi, deputy commandant of the Directorate of Police Fire Prevention and Rescue Services Hassan Kyanda; Lt. Amos Sultan of the UPDF and several others.

Onyango however warned people who intend to join the celebrations and prayers at Nakivubo stadium to avoid coming when drunk or carry metallic objects, saying security operatives will be searching everyone and blocking suspicious people.

He said they will be searching everyone at entrances and will not accept sharp metallic tools like knives, bottles, heavy luggage of fire arms.

He urged people moving from upcountry and Kampala suburbs to move in groups to avoid getting lost in big crowds and advised them to carry light luggage.

Onyango said that the IGP had so far cleared 420 places to make fireworks, three quarters of which will be in Kampala,  but warned anyone who had not been cleared not to attempt to do so.

He said personnel from the counter terrorism unit will escort all the fireworks gadgets and witness the bursts at exactly midnight, which must not go beyond five minutes.

Bishop Kiganda said: "This is the 9th year since we started giving alternatives to Ugandans who want to celebrate the New Year in prayer with their God instead of burning tyres and drinking. People used to engage in bad things like raping women," he said.

He said the Prayer Day gives an alternative to people who want to enter the year 2015 in the hands of God.

"If God enabled you to complete the year, come and pray with us and ask God to sail you through the coming year and make you successful," he said.

He said pastors will pray for individuals so that each is made a 'head not a tail', referring to people praying to avoid trailing in whatever they do. Bishop Kiganda will be joined by his wife, Pastor Cindy Kiganda.

Preachers of the day will include Bishop Michael Kyazze, Apostle Allan Bender from USA, and Pastor Jacque Green from UK, Pastor Fred Grobler, Apostle Michael Kimuli, and Pastor Rebecca Majwega
 

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