{UAH} Vision Group launches campaign on terrorism-I FULLY SUPPORT THIS GOOD INITIATIVE BY NEW VISION!!!UGANDANS MUST UNITE AGAINST TERRORISM!!!
Vision Group launches campaign on terrorism-I FULLY SUPPORT THIS GOOD INITIATIVE BY NEW VISION!!!UGANDANS MUST UNITE AGAINST TERRORISM!!!
By Steven Candia
Starting October 7, 2013, Vision Group will embark on a campaign to create public awareness about the terrorism threat. This comes in light of the recent attack in Kenya and increased terror threats Uganda is facing.
The "You are the eye against terror" campaign is aimed at creating awareness among the public about terrorism and generating increased vigilance and public participation, especially in combating the vice and increasing public safety.
It will run on all the Vision Group platforms – newspapers, radios and televisions.
David Mukholi, the managing editor (editorial), said: "As a leading media house, we have the responsibility of creating awareness among the public."
He added: "In light of these terror attacks and renewed threats, we felt it necessary to give as much information as possible to our readers and audiences."
As part of the campaign, all Vision Group platforms will run stories on a wide range of security-related issues.
The campaign will provide important Police and security communication contacts through which the public can report incidents and volunteer information in confidence to the Police.
"It is basically a wakeup call and will feature expert opinion, interviews with security and stories from survivors of terrorism," Mukholi said.
He observed that despite numerous terror incidents the country has experienced and the Westgate incident in Nairobi there is a lot of complacency thus the campaign.
"We will look at the adequacy of the equipment used, make on-spot security checks in public places that include institutions of learning, places of worship and hospitals to assess the security levels there and make public our findings."
Do not ignore terror alerts, Kayihura warns Ugandans
By Vision Reporter
The Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura, yesterday said the terror threats against the country are real and should be taken seriously by the public.
The Police and sister security agencies, he said, have repeatedly received credible intelligence from other partners about the heinous intentions terrorists harbour against the country thus the numerous terror alerts issued.
"Like the recent one, we received intelligence from one of our collaborating partners of high repute that a terrorist had entered and that is why we issued the alert. We had every reason to believe the intelligence," Kayihura said in an interview at his office yesterday.
In issuing the alerts, he said, the Police was only doing its work of informing the public and will not be deterred.
Last week, Kayihura issued a statement stating that a terrorist, Mueller alias
Ahmed Khaled of German origin had entered the country aboard a Kampala bound bus from Kenya.
It was the second time an alert was issued in one year about Mueller sneaking into Uganda.
The Police issued toll-free numbers that anybody with information about Mueller should call. They are 0800199699, 0800199399 and 0714667743.
"We will continue issuing the alerts as and when we get them," Kayihura said and maintained that the threats are real and serious.
"As a country, we have to be lucky all the time, but the terrorists need to be lucky only once. So, we must be vigilant at all times," he said, adding that the alerts are not geared at making the public to live in fear, but rather to be more vigilant.
Kayihura said whereas there may be no internationally agreed definition of terrorism, going by the key elements, terrorism can be the indiscriminate use of violence.
This violence is geared at causing fear with the objective of advancing a cause, mainly political and with the intention of attracting attention.
The Anti-Terrorism Act, 2002, provides a more detailed definition.
Terrorism can take many forms ranging from kidnap and hostage taking and hijack, criminal violence, violent protests, grenade attacks and assassinations, hold-ups, bomb scares and bombings, cyber-attacks (computerbased) to the use of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
"What is important is that we must expect and be prepared as a nation to face the different types of terror," Kayihura said and hailed New Vision for coming up with the campaign, which he said, is informative.
"I am glad New Vision has taken up this initiative because it will educate the public on the different forms of terror and a lot of other things," he said.
Terrorists in July 2010 carried out twin suicide bomb attacks in Kampala as revellers watched the World Cup finals, killing more than 80 people and leaving more than 50 others injured.
The Somalia-based terror outfit, the Al- Shabaab, claimed responsibility for the attacks, dubbing it a retaliatory attack for Uganda's involvement in Somalia.
Following the attack, the Police and other sister security agencies arrested most of the perpetrators, now on remand in Luzira Prison.
- STILL SURVIVING THE MAFIAS,LIVING IN FEAR AND PAIN,BEING HUNTED LEFT,RIGHT AND CENTER BY MAFIAS PLUS THEIR NETWORKS.
- ON 29/JANUARY/2004 DURING RADIO ONE EKIMEEZA TALKSHOW AT CLUB OBBLIGATTO I REVEALED THE PRESENCE OF MUSEVENI CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION BOUGHT FROM NORTH KOREA AND IRAN-THAT WAS HIDDEN UNDER GULU AIRPORT HUNKER AND THE UNITED NATIONS GRABBED,DESTROYED AND TOOK AWAY THE REMAINING ONES TO UNKNOWN DESTINATION-THIS IS ONE REASON WHY PRESIDENT MUSEVENI AND HIS MAFIAS CAN NEVER-NEVER-I SAY NEVER FORGIVE ME SINCE I EXPOSED AND SPOILED THEIR DEADLY DESTRUCTIVE AGENDA FOR NORTHERN UGANDA!!!
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