Police to resume enforcing Curfew guidelines.

By; Ben Musanje

12^th Oct. 2020

Police have announced that starting October 13, 2020 they will resume erection of roadblocks on various roads leading to the city centre to enforce Coronavirus guidelines.

Speaking at the Joint Security briefing at the Uganda Media Centre this afternoon, Fred Enanga, the Police spokesperson said they have realized members of the pubic are no longer adhering to the Standard Operating Procedures put in place by government.

He says Motorists and businesses are not respecting the 9pm curfew time. Boda boda riders are not respecting the 6pm time. Motorists are carrying passengers in a reckless manner. Curfew starts at 9pm but many shops and other businesses are found still open past that time.

He says with effect from Tuesday, the checkpoints and barriers they had in the outskirts of Kampala and major highways will be manned afresh.

Following the lifting of the lockdown, security removed all roadblocks from various roads leading to the city centre but according to Enanga, the grace period by security has been abused by the public.

All territorial commanders have been instructed by the Inspector General of Police to reinvigorate and intensify the enforcement mechanism on COVID-19.

Uganda has 9081 confirmed Coronavirus cases and 6109 of these have successfully recovered and discharged from various hospitals around the country and 93 have died since the first case was registered in March 2020.