Newly appointed Inspector General of Police (IGP) Okoth Ochola has issued a directive to disarm all crime preventers in the country.
TrumpetNews understands that 50 pistols were given out to this ‘vigilante’ group by the former IGP Gen Kale Kayihura after its inception in 2015.
Crime Preventer head Blaise Kamugisha, however, told this website on Monday that, it is untrue his men and women had been armed.
He referred to this claim as, “rubbish” wondering who is peddling these lies in the media.
But a senior police officer (names withheld for fear of reprimand) who has long questioned the legality of crime preventers said Ochola, who has worked as deputy IGP knows ‘deeply’ knows how the group has been operating.
“Those guns were given out illegally. Now the IGP needs all of them,” said a senior officer.
The development comes at a time when reports in the media suggested that the fate of crime preventers remains unknown since the godfather was recently shown exist from the force.
The group that started as a vigilante would later become powerful.
Many senior officers began ‘worship’ Blaise Kamugisha because of his easy access to the IGP.
“I don’t know the guns that are being talked about because no crime preventer has or got a gun,” Blaise maintained.
Police spokesman Emilian Kayima couldn’t answer our repeated calls.
While appearing before Parliament for vetting IGP Ochola told MPs that police stopped functioning when Kayihura took over from Gen Edward Katumba.
Kayihura has been at the helm of police for 13 years, but after his sacking President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said Kayihura had presided over bean weevil that infiltrated the institution.
