Police mouthpiece, Fred Enanga, has revealed that the force will punish its officers implicated in the smashing of Kyadondo East MP, Robert Kyagulanyi’s vehicle.
Police on Easter Monday broke the window of Bobi Wine’s car using pistol butts and a hammer and later fired teargas in to grad him out of his car and disperse his supporters before he was arrested.
Addressing journalists at the Naguru police headquarters on Monday, Enanga said the incident is regrettable and that all the officers involved will be charged because they did not follow the right procedures of police.
The police statement comes after President Yoweri Museveni, condemned the method that police used to break in to have Bobi Wine arrested. The police broke the wind screen and sprayed him with pepper that compelled him to come out of the vehicle.
“I disapprove the method the police used to break the glass of Bobi Wine’s car. They should have towed the vehicle to wherever they wanted him to be. I do not watch TV most of the time because of work,” Mr Museveni said in a statement.
Enanga, said they suppressed arrest procedures and opted for the last measure of forcefully breaking into his vehicle. He said under the law, police is allowed to break into cars, houses for nabbing of any suspect.
He faulted operation commander on that day for failure to plan and lay strategies that would have led to the arrest of the MP without out causing chaos or damage.
Bobi wine has since said president Museveni’s condemnation of his brutal arrest is a pretense, asking why the said police officer have not been arrested, prosecuted or dragged to police professional unit.
He said police brutality is one of the methods used to clampdown on opposition leaders who oppose the injustices in government.
