Daily Monitor Thursday January 14 2021 Ugandan police officers and members of Local Defence Units, a paramilitary force composed of civilians, on curfew patrol in Kamapla in April 2020. Advertisement The government will deploy security personnel on all rooftops of Kampala’s arcades and tall buildings to ensure security in the capital as Ugandans go to the polls today. Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango said the security decision was informed by violent protests in and around Kampala in November. He said police intelligence and CCTV footage analysis indicated that people who were leading the rioters operated on rooftops of arcades to give instructions to the protesters.