By; Jjunju Francis
President Yoweri Museveni has disclosed that Crime Preventers will now be under the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF).
Addressing over 3,000 crime preventers at MTN Arena Lugogo today, Museveni says that the new crime preventer team should meet with the Chief of Defense Forces (CDF), Gen. David Muhoozi whom he has already talked to, to have the crime preventers scheme to be under the army
He further revealed that the former Inspector General of Police General Kale Kayihura is not the brain behind the crime preventers’ initiative adding that the project is for the National Resistance Army (NRA) acting back to the 1980s.
Addressing over 3,000 crime preventers at MTN Arena Lugogo today, Museveni said Kayihura was just a good cadre who implemented the project
Apart from preventing crime, Museveni told crime preventers to be exemplary actors in poverty eradication in their homes and communities.
However, Museveni pledged to inject 1.3 billion shillings into Crime Preventers SACCO.
Largely seen as a Kayihura project, The National Crime Preventers Forum (NCPF) describes itself as an umbrella body under which all crime preventers are organized and coordinated. It was founded in 2013 to promote community policing in Uganda in partnership with Uganda Police Force and now numbered to 12 million.
The fate of crime preventers was hanging in the balance, with some expecting the new IGP to disband the group that has been accused of crime promotion rather than crime prevention.
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