As the brutalising of citizens by a group of UPDF soldiers and Local Defence Unit (LDU) personnel continues, Mr Joseph Luzige, the chairman of Mityana District, who was brutalised yesterday, narrowly survived a beating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Luzige, was on Tuesday reportedly trying to stop the security operatives from harassing residents while enforcing a night curfew, one of the measures that were announced in March to stop the spread of coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Mr Luzige, he was on his way to Mityana General Hospital when he found a woman being brutalised by security operatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I found a woman with a fractured leg which was seriously bleeding after being after being brutalised by UPDF soldiers. I moved out of my car and told the soldiers that what they were doing was wrong,\u201d Mr Luzige said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Luzige said that the soldiers pushed and shoved him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The soldiers reportedly told Mr Luzige that since he didn\u2019t deploy him he had no authority to stop them from what they were doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that he has on several occasions received complaints from residents that soldiers were brutalising them on top of confiscating their belongings like mobile phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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