Police recruits have scores to settle - Bobi Wine

Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine had a run-in with Police during the recent by-election that saw him elected Kyadondo East MP.

He was briefly detained on the eve of the hotly contested polls and according to him, some of his supporters caught up in the police dragnet that day remain in detention.

Earlier today, Kyagulanyi had his say on what lawmakers sitting on the human rights committee of Parliament described as "increasing Police brutality," attributing it to "Police recruiting known criminals among its lower cadres."

"These criminals have borne the brunt of the community, sometimes beaten for petty offenses like theft. They definitely have scores to settle with people and when they get a chance, they met out violence on citizens," Kyagulanyi said.

Kyagulanyi made the comments during a meeting between lawmakers and some senior technocrats in the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution over the 2016 report by Uganda Human Rights Commission.

Although the interface should ordinarily have focused on what DPP had done over the last 12 months to solve the queries raised in the report, a host of lawmakers spent a considerable part of the meeting excoriating police officers for a slew of shenanigans ranging from partiality during elections, brutality to corruption.

Following the assassination of Assistant Inspector of Police, Felix Kawesi, early this year, president Yoweri  Museveni conceded that police needs a clean up on account of having criminals among its ranks.