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President Museveni changed the leadership of the Uganda Police Force, withdrawing most military officers from its helm and restoring traditional police officers to the top of the command structure.
The study also reveals that there are “undertones of disgruntlement relating to recruitment, favouritism in promotions.
Africa’s young people are a strong political force, as demonstrated by a rise in social movements and political protests across the continent, such as the movement for democracy and term limits in Uganda, the #EndSARS movement in Nigeria, and demonstrations protesting the military coup in Sudan. However, young people continue to be excluded from decision-making. The erosion of the rule of law across the continent, exemplified by attempts to amend or eliminate presidential term limits, will undoubtedly have the largest impact on the current generation.
In his research article titled; When guns govern public health: Examining the implications of the militarized Covid-19 pandemic response for democratization and Human Rights in Uganda, James Nkuubi, a post-graduate researcher at the school of Law, Makerere University, argues that “the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Force (UPDF) and the attendant auxiliary forces are not an ideal force for domestic deployment in contending with public health pandemics such as Covid-19.” He says in the research published in the African Human Rights Law Journal, that the take-no-explanation’ mode of enforcement...