By Mathew Etyang

6^th January 2012: In his most recent Daily Monitor article, the NRM’s chief oppressor Lt Gen Kale Kayihura, who is also sadly the Inspector General of Police [IGP], said he was “shocked” at the way the Daily Monitor was portraying his police force as a bunch of people who don’t care about the lives Journalists and ordinary citizens.

In his insulting but woefully futile attempt to impose a “human” face to his brutal men of death, Kayihura claimed that his officers care dearly about the lives of all Ugandans regardless of social status.  When they fall foul of the law, Kayihura said, with examples, that he has been quick to order their arrest and prosecution.

Kayihura may have been “shocked”, but I am utterly disgusted by his sickening arrogance in the face of overwhelming evidence showing that his police officers are anything but human.  Why, for instance, hasn’t Kayihura ordered the arrest and prosecution of his deranged officer Gilbert Arinaitwe who nearly killed FDC Party President Dr Kizza Besigye?

Why hasn’t he ordered the arrest and prosecution of his reckless officers who nearly caused the death of Kampala Central Woman MP Nabila Nagayi in a road traffic accident?  Why hasn’t he ordered the arrest and prosecution of his officers who shot dead two year old Juliana in Masaka during the walk-to-work protests last year?

Why hasn’t Kayihura ordered the arrest and prosecution of his officers who brutally beat up ordinary Ugandans for merely exercising their constitutional rights to peacefully protest and demonstrate?  I could go on with consummate ease for at least an hour.  The list of tragic incidents involving Kayihura’s men is as long as the River Nile.

Only last week, we woke up to the most shocking news that Kayihura’s men knocked a two year old kid to death in Nsambya and then tried to forcefully take the child’s body from its grieving parents.  When the dead child’s relatives resisted their sadistic attempts to abduct a dead body, they decided to teargas the mourners at the funeral.

How inhuman can Kayihura’s men get before he finally admits that he has turned the national police force into a legal torture and murder squad whose only purpose in life is to ensure “at all costs” that Museveni hangs on to power?  I never thought I would ever say this, but I am so angry that I could, in a moment of madness, easily kill Kayihura myself if I had the means to do it.

Unfortunately, I am still sane and I don’t have the means to do it.  So all I will say to Kayihura is that Ugandans are not as stupid and impotent as he thinks.  With tears in their red tear-gassed eyes, they are carefully and meticulously taking note of every single incident of police brutality.  I am almost certain of that.

When the time comes, as it sure will, Kayihura and his men will pay a very heavy price for their grievous crimes against humanity in Uganda.  Watch this space!  END:  Please login to www.ugandacorrespondent.com every Monday to read our top stories and anytime mid-week for our news updates.

Mr Etyang is exiled Ugandan living in Germany