KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda has space in its prisons to cope with any spike in arrests during next week’s presidential election and the police beat reporters for their own good, senior security officials said on Friday.
Campaigning ahead of the Jan. 14 election, which pits President Yoweri Museveni against 10 other candidates including popstar-turned-lawmaker Bobi Wine, has been marked by brutal crackdowns on opposition rallies.
Wine has been arrested multiple times and security personnel routinely break up his rallies. In November, 54 people were killed as security forces quelled protests after Wine was detained. Reporters have also been attacked by police.
At a pre-election news conference with senior security officials, Uganda’s police chief Martin Okoth Ochola refused to apologise, saying reporters would be stopped from trying to go to areas where their lives could be at risk.
“You are insisting you must go where there is danger. Yes, we shall beat you for your own sake to help you understand that you do not go there. Yes, we shall use reasonable force to ensure that you don’t go where there is a risk. Actually, I have no apology,” he said. more
They’ve really evolved , some years back they were devoured.
Beating the press is a bad thing? I’m ready to stand in like to take my turn on the presstitutes and media pimps…. sign me up!
Where was reuters when demoncraps were stealing the US election? Fuck reuters. WTF do I even care about Uganda – they really don’t – that’s just a squirrel to them.
It’s an ugly environment to be sure, but there’s something really attractive about beating reporters. (I admit it would be for MY good and not so much theirs. )
Too bad we can’t beat the politicians who lie to us and impose draconian restrictions on our liberties, which are destroying businesses!
I’ve got dibs on Andrea Mitchell… to start with.
@Dr. M. — Ooh! Ooh! I gotta have either Chris Wallace or Don Lemon. Maybe both!
A ‘social construct’ whose time has come in the US!
They were inspired by the US politicians who are calling for the punishment of Trump supporters.
I’ve heard it’s woke to share in the traditions of other cultures.
Different Tim: It is, unless it is cultural appropriation. You don’t know which it is until you do it,though.
@Brimming Pride
We Can…. and damned well should.
The longer you all sit and point fingers at Democrats and Republicans, the longer you fool yourself into actually believing there are two parties.
NOW HEAR THIS:
On the 6th of January, President Donald J. Trump did MURDER, in cold blood, the Two-Party myth. There is and always has been one damned party… Since around 1913.
STOP calling them Democrats and Republicans. They don’t deserve the moniker.
STOP accepting their ILLUSION OF CHOICE
STOP owning their Conservative or Liberal labels
STOP playing their RACE GAMES
START CALLING YOURSELF “AMERICAN”
OPEN YOUR DAMNED EYES AND SEE THESE PEOPLE FOR WHAT THEY ARE: THE ENEMY… YOUR ENEMY
The natives are restless.
If that’s how third world countries are run, why not include that in our new “living and breathing” Constitution?
… and than pass a bill to abort the entire socialist-democratic “new” constitutional agenda.
Uganda/US – same thing under democrat rule.
I like them better already.
Seems like they’re too stupid to know that they could be making some really great money simply by charging admission…
Let’s start a go fund me to send the media on a vacation to a warmer location for all they’ve been through. Acosta can receive the first trip.
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Don’t expect much from Uganda – but damn! Sometimes they have a good idea!
Diversity is our STRENGTH!
We don’t have “reporters” any more but we’ve got plenty of journalists to beat!
It’s fo da l’il chillens.
izlamo delenda est …
Lets see! What do the Ugandan thugs and the new democrat race mongers have in common?