Parliament condemns police’s high-handedness, demands action
Police have released eleven female Members of Parliament who had been detained at the Central Police Station in Kampala. They were arrested outside the gate of Parliament just as they started marching to the Ministry of internal affairs to protest against harassment by security forces. They say that in recent weeks the police have violently disrupted activities they organised in their separate districts to mark Women’s Day. The scuffle at parliamentary avenue lasted about an hour as the police and the MPs elbowed and shoved each other, paralyzing traffic along the road. In parliament, the deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa, the Leader of Opposition Mthais Mpuuga and the state minister for internal affairs condemned the behaviour of the security personnel.
