The account was collected from officers in the districts of Moroto, Napak and Kaabong. The officers who requested to speak on condition of anonymity for fear of being reprimanded said that staying in the area for years without transfers and promotions, tantamount to punishment.
The message also brings back Patrick Onyango to Kampala Metropolitan Police as the spokesperson from the Office of the Inspector General of Police where he has been in charge communication.
ACP Bakaleke has been the Regional Police Commander Kampala Metropolitan South until Saturday night when he was dropped by his boss, IGP Kayihura. Hours later, however, Kayihura was himself dropped from the police command and replaced by his deputy, Okoth Ochola. Also dropped is General Henry Tumukunde whose docket as Security Minister has been handed over to General Elly Tumwine. As IGP, Ochola will be deputized by Brigadier Sabiiti Muzeei, who has been commandant of the Military Police.
Kayihura has this afternoon appointed Assistant Inspector General of police AIGP Haruna Isabirye as the new Director Human Resource Development, a year since Kaweesi was brutally murdered
In the message released this afternoon, four regional spokespersons have been transferred to the police headquarters to act as liaison officers for different directorates. They include Vincent Sekate, Samson Lubega, Sophie Naggayi Kaggwa, and Evas Ainomugisha.
Senior Superintendent of Police Nixon Agasiirwe, whose ranks and presence in police is surrounded by controversies, has been referred to the Human Resource Management Directorate pending deployment.
The officers transferred through a message released this morning signed by the Director Human Resource Management Moses Balimwoyo are between the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police ASP and Senor Commissioner of Police SCP. According to the message, Lodovick Awita, the former head of security at Entebbe International Airport replaces suspended Elias Kasirabo as the Commandant Very Important Person Protection Unit VIPPU. Awita is replaced by James Ruhweza who has been the head of operations at Kampala Metropolitan Police KMP.
According to the transfer list issued on Wednesday evening, Muhammad Kirumira, the Old Kampala Divisional Police Commander now moves to Buyende, the Kiira DPC Michael Kasigire has been transferred to Kiryandogo while Kenneth Muheirwe Muketu, the Buyende DPC moves to Kampala Metropolitan as Staff Officer Operations.
In a mini police reshuffle just hours to the announcement of the Presidential election results, James Ruhweza has been appointed the Kampala Metropolitan Area Operations commander.
The transfer follows a petition to the Inspectorate of Government challenging the promotions. The petitioners say that the list of promoted officers was edited by officers in the Police Directorate of Human Resources to add persons whose names had not been sanctioned by the appointing authority.
According to a reliable source, the list of re-deployment and transfers was compiled during the two weeks leave and handed over to the Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura before the pass out of the commanders.
The police structure indicates that one has to be at the rank of AIGP to be appointed a director while to be a deputy Director one has to be at the rank of Senior Commissioner of Police SCP.
Omala is replaced by Superintendent of Police (SP) Agero Rashid, the new Field Force Unit Operations Commander for Kampala Metropolitan Police, a statement issued by Police Spokesman Fred Enanga shows.
Taban Chiriga, the Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Officer in Rakai, also the chief investigator in the Pastor Steven Mugambe murder case of nine family members, has been transferred. Uganda Radio Network (URN) has learnt of Chiriga\'s transfer to the CID Headquarters in Naguru from fellow detectives.
The Inspector General of Police General Kale Kayihura has finally cracked the whip on Senior Commissioner of Police Laban Muhabwe and transferred him from the Directorate of Non Human Resources. Muhabwe was early this year at the centre of an alleged theft of 400 bags of cement from the Directorate. Though the rumor was rife it was never confirmed to be true.
Outgoing Luweero District Police Commander Samuel Bamuzibire has said that combating the practice of witchcraft was the greatest challenge of his tenure.
Evans Nuwamanya, the Eastern Regional Police Commander, is in trouble for allegedly mismanaging the several public riots that recently hit Mbale district.
