UGANDA: Museveni's cameras are a scarecrow for opposition protests - PHOTOS

MUSEVENI'S CAMERAS ARE A SCARECROW FOR OPPOSITION PROTESTS

With the installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in urban areas, "the game is finished" for city criminals, President Yoweri Museveni has said. While launching the national safe city CCTV project in which at least 359 CCTV cameras have been installed in Kampala over the last three months, Museveni said now criminals can be monitored from near and far, during the day and night, before and after crime.

"The game is finished, it's finished for the criminals." Museveni said. The project is part of a government strategy to fight urban crime and beefing up security in Kampala Metropolitan area.

During the launch, the police IT experts disclosed that among other functions the cameras will be able to locate, raise alarm and notify the control centre on ANY BUILD UP OF CROWDS. By programming the cameras to raise alarm over crowds build-up, the regime is aiming at nabbing in the bud any attempts by citizens to assemble with intention of carrying out street protests. The regime strongly believes that the population may at one time raise up in protests against repression thus installation of cameras is one of such efforts to handle protests. Otherwise, the usual crime will continue since focus will be on monitoring the dissenting population and the opposition activists in particular.

Take an example below whereby privately installed cameras captured clearly identifiable footage but since then the perpetrators have never been gotten.

On May 22, 2016 a break in occurred at the offices of HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS AND PROMOTION FORUM-UGANDA (HRAPF), a human rights organization in Kampala, Uganda. A guard was murdered. The faces of the perpetrators were caught on camera. (see below) There was no arrest. Not only was there no justice, but this same organization HRAPF, was targeted again, experiencing a second violent break-in around February 2018.

These attacks came against the backdrop of a narrowing civic space and increasing incidents of break-ins at civil society organisations that have not been satisfactorily investigated or resolved. 

Since 2012, there have been reported break-ins at numerous organisations working in the field of human rights advocacy. Organisations such as the Uganda Land Alliance, the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, the Legal Aid Service Providers Network, Akina Mama Wa Afrika and the Anti-Corruption Coalition have suffered break-ins in similar fashion and, despite timely reports to the police on all occasions, no arrests have ever been made.
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It's because that particular criminal incident had been sanctioned by the state. The people whose identities were clearly identified could have even been hired from neighboring countries so that citizens are not able to identify them.

INFORMATION IS POWER AND THE PROBLEM OF UGANDA IS MUSEVENISM

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