Lord Mayor of Kampala Erias Lukwago has written to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Martin Okoth Ochola about death threats that he has recently received. The letter written by his personal assistant Elvis Kintu speaks about the need to investigate the threats and also urgently boost his security.
“As the country continues to witness assassinations, we have received threats via social media particularly from facebook. The purpose of this letter is to entreat your office to accordingly scrutinize and investigate the contentions therein and most importantly boost the Lord Mayor’s security immediately.I don’t want to take it lightly because we are in a dangerous situation,” the letter in part reads. Lukwago’s letter has received a verbal response from police, with one of its spokespersons Patrick Onyango stating that the police will improve his security soon.
