{UAH} NRM Criminal Structure and the Face of the Nation

First, co-opt boda boda riders as an informal intelligence network.
Secondly, rally marginalised youth and the low-level criminal networks
in the outskirts of Kampala into a militia affiliated to the police,
to infiltrate and also beat down Besigye supporters and break up the
"Walk to work" protests later.

To understand what went wrong here, we need to go back to Maj Kakooza
Mutale's controversial 2001 "Kiboko Squad", which was largely an
anti-Besigye militia.
Kakooza Mutale isn't most people's first choice of a roommate, and
"Kiboko Squad" was a disgrace, but it had a "disciplined" element to
it. More aligned to the UPDF than police, Mutale and company ran it
closely. It would parade, and had command and control.

The need to de-couple these militia activities from the UPDF, landed
them into police. To cut a long story short, it was over. Unlike 2001,
by 2016, the police were now cobbling together the "Crime preventers",
a militia so divorced from Kampala, they needed to camp out in the
Kololo Ceremonial Grounds.
Fifteen kilometres away in Kisangati, despite (or perhaps even because
of it), the police blockade around his house, Besigye laughed into his
tea cup – and Kayihura took another step closer to the edge of the
cliff.

Thank you Obbo Charles
http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/columnists/CharlesOnyangoObbo/Crisis-Uganda-police-that-man-Besigye-Part-2/878504-4350328-o8w4u8z/index.html


On 3/10/18, Dan Bwanika <bulemezi@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is a reflection of cultural imbecility - if ones entire mind and
> existence is about violence
>


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