{UAH} THE ARMY'S KATEBE SYNDROME CREEPS INTO THE POLICE
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THE ARMY'S KATEBE SYNDROME CREEPS INTO THE POLICE
Katebe is a Luganda language to mean a stool, chair, seat or a bench. It is commonly used in Uganda's military circles to refer to the practice where some of its officers are rendered redundant but continue to be counted as being in active service. The term was coined from the practice in the game of football where by coaches place some players on the bench. In Uganda's military such officers remain in service but are not deployed or assigned to any positions of responsibility. Museveni adopted this scheme in his efforts to personalise the army and applied it on those he felt were not being loyal to him and his schemes of retaining power unconstitutionally. Because command and administrative positions are associated with accumulation of ill-gotten wealth, depriving such real or perceived so called disloyal officers of promotions and positions of responsibility is a way of punishing them while at the same time beating them into submission. In some instances such officers are removed from positions of higher responsibility and reassigned to insignificant positions or letting their juniors surpass them in terms of rank and hierarchy just to overwhelm them. Since even retirement at a certain point became a matter of personal loyalty or what Museveni calls political clarity, indeed Katebe has tamed many of them into submission.
For the last over one decade Museveni has been working on schemes to personalise and militarise the police force and now that he is making tremendous success in that direction, his focus is on the Uganda Prisons Service. However the scheme is having devastating effects on the cohesion of the police force and the entire institution of policing in the country. Reports of bribery, nepotism, corruption, nepotism, sectarianism, and favouritism in recruitment, specialized training, deployment, promotions etc have always been swept under the carpet. Inquiries into such anomalies have always been announced but the outcome remains mysterious. It is an open secret that Police officers from certain regions of the country are exclusively assigned to head specific strategic admistrative departments and field command positions. The central region specifically is exclusively for officers hailing from a specific region of the country; Commander Sam Omara was the last officer who doesn't hail from the most preferred region to hold a top command position in the central region. It is for the same reasons that the Commander of Central Kampala business district, Aron Baguma is still in-charge despite a pending warrant of arrest against him for murder recommended by the DPP and issued by Buganda Road Court can't be effected.
Following the most recent promotions of over 400 police officers, allegations of bribery, nepotism, sectarianism and favoratism have reemerged. A big section of officers are grumbling for having been unfairly left out while undeserving officers were considered. Specifically, the officers in the Traffic and Criminal Investigations department are complaining over having been left out. The police leadership has as usual pro missed to carry out an inquiry while the government Ombundsman has taken up investigations. Whatever the case, there is nothing that can be done to save the situation because its a well designed scheme to personalise the police force the same way it was done for the army. What the regime will do is simply to either identify or victimise individuals it suspects of grumbling and accuse them of indiscipline and subversion before they dissent is totally silenced. What is clear however is that the recent promotions were meant to morale boost the police officers in view of the forthcoming tightly contested general elections. Because the regime is in a tight corner, its only available option is to use the police as lead agents of rigging, intimidation, and orchestrating the much anticipated polls violence. Fresh sophisticated anti-riot police logistics have bee procured and will be applied by the recently promoted officers against Ugandans.
In the estimates of Museveni and his defacto Vice President, Gen. Kalekyezi who also doubles as the police chief, the other officers in the Traffic, Criminal Investigations, Police Band, etc are insignificant at this material time thus why they were not considered in the last promotion.
INFORMATION IS POWER
For the last over one decade Museveni has been working on schemes to personalise and militarise the police force and now that he is making tremendous success in that direction, his focus is on the Uganda Prisons Service. However the scheme is having devastating effects on the cohesion of the police force and the entire institution of policing in the country. Reports of bribery, nepotism, corruption, nepotism, sectarianism, and favouritism in recruitment, specialized training, deployment, promotions etc have always been swept under the carpet. Inquiries into such anomalies have always been announced but the outcome remains mysterious. It is an open secret that Police officers from certain regions of the country are exclusively assigned to head specific strategic admistrative departments and field command positions. The central region specifically is exclusively for officers hailing from a specific region of the country; Commander Sam Omara was the last officer who doesn't hail from the most preferred region to hold a top command position in the central region. It is for the same reasons that the Commander of Central Kampala business district, Aron Baguma is still in-charge despite a pending warrant of arrest against him for murder recommended by the DPP and issued by Buganda Road Court can't be effected.
Following the most recent promotions of over 400 police officers, allegations of bribery, nepotism, sectarianism and favoratism have reemerged. A big section of officers are grumbling for having been unfairly left out while undeserving officers were considered. Specifically, the officers in the Traffic and Criminal Investigations department are complaining over having been left out. The police leadership has as usual pro missed to carry out an inquiry while the government Ombundsman has taken up investigations. Whatever the case, there is nothing that can be done to save the situation because its a well designed scheme to personalise the police force the same way it was done for the army. What the regime will do is simply to either identify or victimise individuals it suspects of grumbling and accuse them of indiscipline and subversion before they dissent is totally silenced. What is clear however is that the recent promotions were meant to morale boost the police officers in view of the forthcoming tightly contested general elections. Because the regime is in a tight corner, its only available option is to use the police as lead agents of rigging, intimidation, and orchestrating the much anticipated polls violence. Fresh sophisticated anti-riot police logistics have bee procured and will be applied by the recently promoted officers against Ugandans.
In the estimates of Museveni and his defacto Vice President, Gen. Kalekyezi who also doubles as the police chief, the other officers in the Traffic, Criminal Investigations, Police Band, etc are insignificant at this material time thus why they were not considered in the last promotion.
INFORMATION IS POWER
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