{UAH} Ug Police Neglects suspects...
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Uganda police has a duty to safeguard suspects...it should become a law to do health checks on suspects before they are locked up... Imagine how can a pregnant woman be held in a police cell with out health checks?Gen Kayihura style up your policing policies and guidelines to your officers, men and women constables.
Woman delivers in police cell
Ms Arinaitwe with her baby at Ntungamo Health Centre IV where she was taken for postnatal care. Photo by Perez Rumanzi.
Posted Sunday, September 29 2013 at 00:00
IN SUMMARY
Ms Arinaitwe had gone to police to answer to charges of child-neglect.
On Tuesday, Ms Arinaitwe, 35, a resident of Butare central village, Ntungamo Sub-county woke up and planned her journey to Ntungamo Police station where she had been summoned to explain herself over charges of child neglect instigated against her by her in-laws.
She reached the police station a few minutes before midday, having travelled 17 kilometres on a boda boda. She was eight months and 16 days pregnant.
After recording a statement, the officer in charge Family and Child Protection Unit, told her she was to spend a night in the cells and be produced in court the next day on charges of child neglect.
She had spent about five hours in the cells when labour pains started.
"I was in the cells with three women and three girls. We were having our supper at the time. There was no one I could report to, so my inmates helped me give birth," Ms Arinaitwe told the Sunday Monitor at Ntungamo Health Centre IV where she was taken for postnatal care.
Ms Arinaitwe said the conflict with her in-laws started after the death of her husband three years ago allegedly over control of the late's estates.
Police say they regretted the incident.
"She gave birth from here, but she was later transferred to the health centre for care. It was unfortunate but we could not know she was that pregnant, that is why she put her in," Mr Bosco Gume, the officer in-charge of criminal investigations, said.
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